The Cusine wrote:
Obviously it's the local cuisine. Lock Yuan Restaurant has $2 lunches, great for runners with their figure on their minds. Muchas Gracias is open 24 hours a day, several locations near campus. Evergreen has a great Indian buffet. Track Town Pizza is Shakey's for real but you can inhale pizzas and beer with Pre watching over you. Toshi's Ramen is where the Bohemian elites hang. Low on cash ? you can always get a free bite at the St. Vincent De Paul center or Union Mission in the 4 corners area. That's only a sampling of the fine cuisine that we have here in Track Town USA.
Muchas Gracias is also good for weight management due to the explosive diarrhea that accompanies every meal.
You also forgot to mention the best eatery in Eugene ... MAPLE GARDEN.
FunRunner2 wrote:
Jordan has a desire to study Human Physiology at Oregon. If you listened to her interview, you would have heard that she also hopes to be selected into the highly acclaimed University of Oregon Honors College program..the same program that my own daughter pursued...before later being accepted at Stanford for her masters program. Eugene and the U of O provide a great undergraduate "experience"...to hell with all you idiots who are impressed by the PR "ratings" put out to sell magazines. For one thing, those "ratings" are highly skewed toward research universities and post-bacc. programs. Those things have little to do with an intelligent distance runner who wants to enjoy her college experience and set herself up with the best possible chance to succeed as a runner. Good for you, Jordan. Shame on you negative posters who would question the decision of a young lady who probably has five times the IQ of many of you.
So Hasay is going to Oregon for the undergraduate "experience". I guess we can expect to see her closing down Rennie's and rocking out to Neil Diamond at Max's then right?
Ratings in US News have nothing to do with it. Stanford is clearly a better school than UO, this cannot be argued.
IQ doesn't matter when you're young and naive. Even Feynman was an idiot when he was 18.
chrisdiaz16 wrote:
for example, i would send a girl to saratoga over fm, even though fm has been better the past few years. you have to consider perfect storms of talent vs. ability to produce championship-contending teams year-after-year
and it sounds like OTC was a significant factor in her decision, and OTC>>>>washington xc team
I wouldn't send my worst enemy to run for the Kranicks, let a lone a girl I cared about.
Also, the UW women could probably take the OTC to the woodshed.
That whole organization is essentially a charity for above-average college runners who put off their lives for the privilege of pulling Symmonds through workouts.