USATF National Club XC Championships 2022 - Golden Gate Park surface?

Are vaporflys even allowed in USA championship cross country races?

There’s no world team on the line and nothing associated with World Athletics, so yes, anything goes

Would really like to wear spikes especially with the amount of rain forecasted for Saturday but doesn't seem like that will be a great idea with the hard ground around the polo field. Would blanks in a pair of XC spikes be a good compromise in this situation?

Why not move the "cross country" course to all grass loops?

Feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen with master runners in spikes on wet asphalt...

Now looking like no heavy rain in San Francisco until Saturday. What might that spell for the course? Also looks incredibly windy. Might that help keep things drier?

Gucci,

It looks like pretty heavy rain starting Saturday AM, so perhaps the course will hold the 1+ inches of rain forecasted, but it will be a mess by the end! Should be fun.

The open race is going to be carnage! You have to just have fun with it at that point and embrace the absurdity.

Will Cole Hocker bail?

Here is a quaint club "highlight reel" compiled over a decade ago during the 2011 Pacific Association XC champs, when we were a brand new club with only a few core members. We've expanded since then but this vid will give you a little visual insight into part of the course.

I'm in the bright yellow top questioning my life choices and looked like a drowned rat. ;) The weather is looking quite similar this Saturday, unfortunately. It gets really slick so you'll have to strongly consider spikes or rubberized cleats and hope you make it over the harder stuff OK. If you can run the course in Flys when it's this wet, you might well have to swing wide at times, and will find it quite a challenge to stay up around those sharp turns.

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I put a downpayment on achilles' surgery and will wear dragonflies.

Clearly a 40+ runner.

As of now 209 likes on his review who knows the amount of dislikes. Yikes, it looks like DGR isn’t responding to his request for hitting the thumbs up.

What a joke of a course. This is supposed to be the xc national championship race. The course is awful with only small sections of grass. USATF should be ashamed of holding this race on such a crappy course.

There should never, ever be a as cross country race where people are even considering Vaporflys. There are enough road races. This is not a cross country course.

Any chicks want to hook up after the race? I'm looking for early 20s but will consider 30s, a 6 or 7 in looks since they're less high maintenance than 8s or above. I'm in my 40s, not racing, well hung, over 6'0, looking for casual company for the evening.

The white guy Whelan was nosing around in Russia and got caught.They can keep him.

The path the south side of JFK is a trail. I run this section every Sunday.

I run on the course every morning. It has been pretty wet in SF for the last week or so. The Polo field is still hard packed but the grass and dirt parts are quite muddy. With rain expected today and tomorrow I would expect the conditions to get worse. If I were running, I would be wearing spikes.

The Polo field does not have asphalt. It is just very hard packed dirt/gravel. The path on the south side of JFK is a dirt trail with some sizable rocks. The only asphalt sections are when you need to cross a road. It was muddy this morning and will only get worse on Saturday.

You really wouldn't call the polo field loop asphalt? It's not well paved asphalt like a road and there are still some dirt patches, but at least half of the loop seems like asphalt to me and I wouldn't want to wear spikes on it.