AGree. Geez if you are making a "major announcement"...make it major and a not a minor head scratcher.
AGree. Geez if you are making a "major announcement"...make it major and a not a minor head scratcher.
Be the first one on your block to see the event logo!!
https://www.usatf.org/usatf/files/f0/f0cf17bc-604f-4fd2-b69d-52e5a844add2_250_190.jpg
If Max Siegel thinks that was "Major" then it looks like what we were afraid of when he was hired is true.
Oh My God he's a Jewish Stooge wrote:
If Max Siegel thinks that was "Major" then it looks like what we were afraid of when he was hired is true.
Go to his twitter feed, and look at who he follows. It will crack you up...he follows mostly black female singers.
Not the sharpest tack in the drawer. But clearly a good schmoozer.
Will it be for the Bay to Breakers in SF?
Ok , whats next wrote:
No need for appearance money , its the biggest road prize dollars outside of a marathon in US. The players will show trust me.
Important for then to get some type of TV/cable coverage , hoping sponsors are requesting this from USATF.
I don't think that's true. The NYC Half Marathon had $100,000 in prize money in 2012. The players will not show unless many factors fall into play which is just like the current world.
Hopefully they have a qualifying standards that are high enough to be difficult, but are low enough to give a 17:00 5k guy something to reach for if he works really hard at it.
Various better ideas:
-A pro cross country circuit culminating in USA XC
-A massively increased prize pool for USA XC
-Bigger and better pro track series
-A unified high school XC championship
-A throwback meet with imperial distances
-Indoor cross country circuit (think Monster Jam, but with people instead)
-Nationwide standards on high school and college XC and track race distances
Instead we get the "big news" that there's now a 12k championship. Woo-hoo. Is there any distance USATF doesn't have a championship in?
adsfadsfads wrote:
Instead we get the "big news" that there's now a 12k championship. Woo-hoo. Is there any distance USATF doesn't have a championship in?
What about the 30k or 20 miler? Those were popular back in the day...
Men - sub-34 minutes, women - sub-38. Those are world class times for 12K.
Oh, and two of the biggest races in the US are Bloomsday with over 50,000 runners, and Bay to Breakers which has over 30,000 runners. Both races attract world class fields and so I can only assume this was an oversight on your part.
These might be the ARs
Jon Sinclair 34:19 '83
Colleen deReuck 38:53 '96
agip wrote:
12k? 12k???
Leave it to USATF to pick 12k, a distance not even serious runners can cite a world class time for.
34 minutes. And I'm not even serious about anything!
Bernard Lagat is all in, chicos...for next year
