Point taken about the marathon requiring special skills, but those 5 and 10k times are much much harder to get than a 2:22.
And those 5 and 10 standards are the equivalent of about a 2:15 marathon. So even if a 5 and 10k runner can't put it together at the marathon distance to get a 2:15, he could probably still manage a 2:22. So I'd say this is fair, and allows some fresh talent, right out of college, to run the trials.
I never said I was male.
wineturtle wrote:
How will we know they developed?`~~~~ They will get an OTQ!!!
Yeah, but they better get them before the fall of '07 unlike some of the players in the '04 Trials who waited until the fall of '03. One whole less season for guys to get the job done, so don't make any mistakes or have a bad day in the spring.
On another, but related topic, what does this do to our 2007 World Championship team???
New York people are control freaks. They want to be on top of every step of the race....just like they did with the charade of the xc champs at Van Cortland Park....they crapped all over that great, historic course by running short loops on the flats and freshman hill. And of course the New York Marathon hands out tons of money to people whom they don't have the balls to drug check.