wejo wrote:
mwh wrote:
But how would Abdi fare in the modern era?
Nice one.
Good call!
wejo wrote:
mwh wrote:
But how would Abdi fare in the modern era?
Nice one.
Good call!
West.Coast wrote:
Dregon Ucks wrote:
Whenever looking at PRs from that era, you have to point out that set up races were all but non existent. Many of the 3:43, 13:52 type PRs came in conference races or just a low key invite where the winners all did a lot of the work.
Batliner’s 7:58 was a race at the old BU where he and Goucher traded off the lead and 3rd place was like 8:10. Typically a 13:45 race back then was super hard to come by as opposed to nowadays where you might get it in heat3 at Stanford.
Uhhhh.... Ever hear of the Stanford Invite??? Ever hear of Mt Sac???
Both invites were around, but were much, much smaller than they are today. And other "regional" invitationals like Penn and Drake were bigger/deeper than today, especially for the distance events. Things are just more consolidated nowadays. Not saying that's a good or bad thing, just different.
Rim Rock is THE course of all courses. If you've never raced it, you have no idea. If you have raced it, I'd like to hear which course you compare it to.
birdbeard wrote:
DollyP wrote:
LOL guys.
Anyone got a serious answer. How did they measure XC courses back then?
Genuinely curious.
With a measuring wheel. Much like they do now, I believe. I would think the wheel would still be a lot more accurate than a GPS.
From 2005 to 2014 both my high school and college XC coaches regularly walked our XC courses and fields that we did workouts on with a measuring wheel and a can of spray paint to measure and mark splits.