All programs have been doing nothing but 5-7x1000 at 3k pace with 1:00 rest and 600s with the last 200 cutting down for the last 3 weeks to get ready for this meet. Men and women. For every event 1500-10,000.
Did you not know that?
All programs have been doing nothing but 5-7x1000 at 3k pace with 1:00 rest and 600s with the last 200 cutting down for the last 3 weeks to get ready for this meet. Men and women. For every event 1500-10,000.
Did you not know that?
I swear I've heard her say the exact same workouts that these runners do in the last 10 races i've watched. This is getting ridiculous she needs to shut up.
Sounds like she has had a conversation with each and every athlete in this meet. How is there enough time in the day?
I REALLY hate to say this......bring in Kara Goucher. She has been the only tolerable distance commentator all year. Tell her she can only talk about herself once per day though.
Montgomery now talking about stride patterns in the 4x400m!? I had never heard of that before.#cutting edge #next level analysis
And in the 4 x 400 they broke the CR but we had no mention of it until they crossed the finish line. How do you not talk about that the whole race? They miss the most obvious story lines.
next time i'll try the spanish broadcast, but i dont speak spanish.
Han Solo wrote:
All programs have been doing nothing but 5-7x1000 at 3k pace with 1:00 rest and 600s with the last 200 cutting down for the last 3 weeks to get ready for this meet. Men and women. For every event 1500-10,000.
Did you not know that?
My brain stopped working during this meet.
So bad! The example workouts she says everyone does in ever distance race. The splits down to the tenth from some race a decade ago. She doesn’t shut up long enough to identify the athletes actually in the race.
How could they find someone worse than Carol Lewis...but they did.
“Wow!”
The BYU women “LITERALLY come here and show up!” She knows because she was on the same plane as them.
Despite talking too much, she seemed to have done her research on the athletes, knew about previous performances, had talked to a bunch of them and didn’t misidentify them.
Han Solo wrote:
All programs have been doing nothing but 5-7x1000 at 3k pace with 1:00 rest and 600s with the last 200 cutting down for the last 3 weeks to get ready for this meet. Men and women. For every event 1500-10,000.
Did you not know that?
Especially the 600s. Lots of them. That's just how you train for this.
Worst comment of the meet: Mahala Norris “stole” the victory in the steeplechase
messi wrote:
hurdling wrote:
Agreed at least among current commentators. Tom Hammond and Carol Lewis lead in the hall of shame.
1500m is now a sprint?!
There was nothing wrong with Tom Hammond. Extremely polished. Allowed the experts to do the technical stuff.
All I need commentators to do is correctly identify the runners. I will figure out how the race plays out.
The greatest innovation is track was names on bibs. Fair?
Thank you! Tom Hammond was actually good, He was a competent broadcaster, and I rarely had any issue with his race calls. I know many disagree, but I think Carol Lewis was underrated. She had good insights when giving background information and had a wealth of knowledge of the athletes. I didn’t care for some of her analysis of slow motion replays, but I tend to think that replays of running events are way overused during these broadcasts.
Oh, and Montgomery can’t be the worse. Masback will forever be the worse track commentator.
Hammond definitely missed a number of calls as well as almost always delivering a pre-competition derived storyline about how a race would play out/who the focus should be on. It seemed he did little homework and did not really know of many of the competitors.
Then the race would start and he's talking about that same person as if they are dominating the race while in some cases the athlete was not even among the leaders or competing well at all. Hammond was missing the actual races and who was leading as they were unfolding. Often, only the toward the very end of a race or even after it was completed would he identify (or someone else would do it for him-Ato Boldon at times) who actually won, second, etc.
He called one race as a particular guy leading it yet as it turns out the individual was not even competing at that world championships let alone not in that race. It's not just making mistakes, though, it goes beyond that in also not correcting them once they occur. At least Stones does that.
Lewis was enthusiastic like Montgomery so that was good but she did, as someone else posted here, shrieked out her commentary.
bio drome wrote:
Oh, and Montgomery can’t be the worse. Masback will forever be the worse track commentator.
Ouch very hard to decide which of these two is the worst.
Yeah.
I'm not a fan of Jill Montgomery, either.
Also, am I the only one cringing over those inane, immediate, post race interviews?
Yes they mention it.
much better than we've dealt with in previous years. At least has some kind of knowledge about the sport. A step in the right direction but still not good
Still Waiting wrote:
Yes they mention it.
They do, but only after the race I think. Briefly after, and then in the interview. During the race they barely seem to know her tho she ran and won the ACC 1500 and 5k (4:10 and 15:34). Given that, and her mother winning the same race , and in Eugene, and spot on 30 years ago, seems like it would have been one of those background stories they film. Missed opportunity.