Our preview of the meet is up here:
Meet is at 10 am and the live stream will be here:
https://www.facebook.com/HansonsBrooksDistanceProject
With Bowerman TC out, HOKA NAZ Elite is heavy favorite. Anyone think Hanson's, Atlanta Track Club or Roots Running can contend?
And I haven't analyzed how much faster Hanson's "A" is than "B".
Shocking! Unbelievable!
Schumacher pulls out at last minute after pretended to be truly interested. Was there ever any chance they were going? Why go through the charade of calling Hanson, etc? Just to create drama and get your team talked about for the first time since claiming American Records while breaking the rule that more than one team needs to be invited for the record to count. (For those of you who doubt or are unaware of this, refer to the entire thread on the topic, in which the rule is pasted straight from USATF page.)
We know Jerry's Kids don't race unless it furthers access to Olympics and World Championships. This includes USATF Championships when they are selection events (i.e., not in the 'off year'). They will also grudgingly run a random race to get a qualifying mark for USATF an/or WA. That's it. This is not news. There are many threads over the years about this too.
What offends me - and hopefully offends the organisers - is that they couldn't simply ignore the existence of this event like they do with invitationals featuring A-list in every event. Hengelo, Reiti, Monaco, Bislett, Galan, they have no trouble watching these go by without making waves. Does Jerry call the promoters and hassle them only to create some wild excuse 3 days out? What happens when Boston and Chicago are on the horizon? Is there some pretense as to why BTC will not be represented? Or does Jerry just act like nothing is happening in the pro running world? Why couldn't he have used that approach here? According to LRC reporting, Hanson even expressed doubt that they'd be interested. Even after the old 'Hey, you guys don't really want in on this do you?' Jerry still pretends to be interested. By dramatically backpedaling mere days before, he still gets mentioned in the article. It's either that, or BTC doesn't get discussed by Let's Run for 10 months straight. What a joke!
Bummer but understandable that BTC is out. I think it would awesome is this became a bigger event and annual event. I still think this is the kind of event that could have mainstream appeal with proper presentation, especially with the top teams being involved.
This year I'd expect NAZ to run away with it now and don't think it will be particularly close
have to say it..... wrote:
Shocking! Unbelievable!
Schumacher pulls out at last minute after pretended to be truly interested. Was there ever any chance they were going? Why go through the charade of calling Hanson, etc? Just to create drama and get your team talked about for the first time since claiming American Records while breaking the rule that more than one team needs to be invited for the record to count. (For those of you who doubt or are unaware of this, refer to the entire thread on the topic, in which the rule is pasted straight from USATF page.)
We know Jerry's Kids don't race unless it furthers access to Olympics and World Championships. This includes USATF Championships when they are selection events (i.e., not in the 'off year'). They will also grudgingly run a random race to get a qualifying mark for USATF an/or WA. That's it. This is not news. There are many threads over the years about this too.
What offends me - and hopefully offends the organisers - is that they couldn't simply ignore the existence of this event like they do with invitationals featuring A-list in every event. Hengelo, Reiti, Monaco, Bislett, Galan, they have no trouble watching these go by without making waves. Does Jerry call the promoters and hassle them only to create some wild excuse 3 days out? What happens when Boston and Chicago are on the horizon? Is there some pretense as to why BTC will not be represented? Or does Jerry just act like nothing is happening in the pro running world? Why couldn't he have used that approach here? According to LRC reporting, Hanson even expressed doubt that they'd be interested. Even after the old 'Hey, you guys don't really want in on this do you?' Jerry still pretends to be interested. By dramatically backpedaling mere days before, he still gets mentioned in the article. It's either that, or BTC doesn't get discussed by Let's Run for 10 months straight. What a joke!
Somewhere, there is a parallel universe where BTC went to the ekiden despite being exposed to covid19 and somehow the story gets out that they were exposed but only after the race. In that universe, whoever the above poster is would write a rant in desperate need of paragraphing complaining about how Jerry Schumacher thinks the rules don't apply to him (just like in those dang time trials!) and how he never races but when he does he endangers other athletes.
Whether they raced or pulled out you would have found a way to criticize them.
Hmmmm...
Seems like a very white invited field
lostpost wrote:
have to say it..... wrote:
Shocking! Unbelievable!
Schumacher pulls out at last minute after pretended to be truly interested. Was there ever any chance they were going? Why go through the charade of calling Hanson, etc? Just to create drama and get your team talked about for the first time since claiming American Records while breaking the rule that more than one team needs to be invited for the record to count. (For those of you who doubt or are unaware of this, refer to the entire thread on the topic, in which the rule is pasted straight from USATF page.)
We know Jerry's Kids don't race unless it furthers access to Olympics and World Championships. This includes USATF Championships when they are selection events (i.e., not in the 'off year'). They will also grudgingly run a random race to get a qualifying mark for USATF an/or WA. That's it. This is not news. There are many threads over the years about this too.
What offends me - and hopefully offends the organisers - is that they couldn't simply ignore the existence of this event like they do with invitationals featuring A-list in every event. Hengelo, Reiti, Monaco, Bislett, Galan, they have no trouble watching these go by without making waves. Does Jerry call the promoters and hassle them only to create some wild excuse 3 days out? What happens when Boston and Chicago are on the horizon? Is there some pretense as to why BTC will not be represented? Or does Jerry just act like nothing is happening in the pro running world? Why couldn't he have used that approach here? According to LRC reporting, Hanson even expressed doubt that they'd be interested. Even after the old 'Hey, you guys don't really want in on this do you?' Jerry still pretends to be interested. By dramatically backpedaling mere days before, he still gets mentioned in the article. It's either that, or BTC doesn't get discussed by Let's Run for 10 months straight. What a joke!
Somewhere, there is a parallel universe where BTC went to the ekiden despite being exposed to covid19 and somehow the story gets out that they were exposed but only after the race. In that universe, whoever the above poster is would write a rant in desperate need of paragraphing complaining about how Jerry Schumacher thinks the rules don't apply to him (just like in those dang time trials!) and how he never races but when he does he endangers other athletes.
Whether they raced or pulled out you would have found a way to criticize them.
Jerry! Didn't know you read the Board. That was sarcastic. I actually did know you read the Board. By the way, 4 paragraphs wasn't enough? Should it have been broken into 8?
Its the instituition dummy wrote:
Hmmmm...
Seems like a very white invited field
Does anyone know if ADP was invited?
Sesamoiditis wrote:
Its the instituition dummy wrote:
Hmmmm...
Seems like a very white invited field
Does anyone know if ADP was invited?
Doubt it. Do they even have two women?
https://tenor.com/G8M4.gifwejo wrote:
Our preview of the meet is up here:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/10/michigan-pro-ekiden-preview-hoka-naz-elite-favored-in-clash-of-us-pro-squads/Meet is at 10 am and the live stream will be here:
https://www.facebook.com/HansonsBrooksDistanceProjectWith Bowerman TC out, HOKA NAZ Elite is heavy favorite. Anyone think Hanson's, Atlanta Track Club or Roots Running can contend?
And I haven't analyzed how much faster Hanson's "A" is than "B".
That’s one crazy rant.
does the stream work without a facebook account?
Interesting... Ian Lamere the D3 cross country champion from 2016 will be racing Tyler Day in the first leg.
Nothing like some drone footage from 100ft in the air where you can't see anything. Why even bother streaming it?
They're using a drone in a park and somehow still have better coverage than major networks.
This drone footage is unfortunate...hopefully they can find a golf-cart for the half-marathon. That said, it's great to see this happening.
The drone comments here are interesting. The Facebook comments are gushing over the drone footage.
Can't complain about a free stream but obviously it would be great to see more. However I think the drone will be fine if the announcers were able to get a little more info to describe what's going on. I think so far they are doing a pretty solid job of talking about the teams and course.
So their field camera has failed due to the weather. here is 3 hours of Ritz talking
