Since the recent breakthrough in racing times has conclusively shown that taking a year off from racing is the best strategy in developing runners, should the NCAA adopt a biennial race calendar where races are only held every other year?
Perhaps other organizations like the NY Road Runners should follow this schedule as well in the interest of furthering the development of talent.
Biennial Racer wrote:
Since the recent breakthrough in racing times has conclusively shown that taking a year off from racing is the best strategy in developing runners, should the NCAA adopt a biennial race calendar where races are only held every other year?
Perhaps other organizations like the NY Road Runners should follow this schedule as well in the interest of furthering the development of talent.
While I think there is a lot of support for the idea that an off year can be helpful to say an entire sport should do it seems ludicrous to me. An individual taking a year "off" might be a good long range plan and is essentially what a lot of women do to have a kid(s). (Not exactly an "off" year for anyone who has had an infant.)
Dual meets every week with all conference members.
Biennial Racer wrote:
Since the recent breakthrough in racing times has conclusively shown that taking a year off from racing is the best strategy in developing runners, should the NCAA adopt a biennial race calendar where races are only held every other year?
Perhaps other organizations like the NY Road Runners should follow this schedule as well in the interest of furthering the development of talent.
You are an IDIOT, nobody actually took a year off from racing. Cooper Teare, Cole Hocker, and Grijalva all raced a 5k in December of 2020. Nuguse had a cross country season in fall of 2020.
The breakthrough in times is 100% due to the spikes.
stan the corgi wrote:
Dual meets every week with all conference members.
ncaa should have hs racing format
duals on weekdays invitationals on saturday
Ncaa coaches would never buy it. Then they couldn't travel and escape their families. Then they'd have to coach for long stretches instead of having one real practice a week plus travel.
As soon as you had outdoor become every other year, coaches would want indoor to be the opposite years defeating the purpose.
But distance coaches would love it if they could put all their track scholarships in cross country and only have to be measured once every other year against schools with reasonable scholarship spending for a full track team.
This is the right question but at the wrong level. At the pro level, the Olympics and WCs should both be held only once per quadrennial, with high-level area championships (European Champs, etc) and the DL Circuit the main events in odd-numbered years. Cash would be on the line in DL meets, and area champions would earn an automatic qualifier into the next year’s global championship (I also think a team score in the area championships should affect how many qualifying spots a country has for the next year’s global championship). The DL would of course still be run in Oly and WC years, but it would inherently take a backseat to the global championships.
This isn’t for purposes of training, though. It’s to make the sport more compelling. We would have the narrative of a bunch of recently-crowned area champs competing at WCs. We would have more meets with qualifying ramifications, even in off years, where top stars have to butt heads. It seems like this would be the logical next step in Coe’s elevation of the DL Circuit and Continental Tour and coordination of the international calendar. In most other international sports, this sort of alternating area/regional championship (or qualifying tournament) in one year and global championship in the next seems to make sense,