Cheap. Stay in Europe or get there. This is the height of the season and while there's a short break for Euros, it's time to be knocking down the pr's and learning how to race with the big boys and girls.
What? You know Ajee and Evan have both won international medals (as in plural) right?
And that the other BTC athletes listed all qualified for and raced at Worlds? Is that not racing with "the big boys and girls"?
Ajee' has an apostrophe. She is not a BTC athlete. BTC races at time trials and major championships. What they suffer is from the lack of preparation for running the major championships because they rarely race the top competition and so aren't ready for their tactics when they race World's or Olympics. Evan and Jerry have claimed that their training doesn't allow them to run well outside of the championships, but plenty of others can do it if they don't overrace like Kipsang.
Woody said after falling (at Trials? Worlds?) this summer that he was in great shape, so he should be going for more than just one 3k in Europe. They should all be getting experience in these races. NACAC is not exactly Diamond League level, and there are always other quality races in Europe outside the DL. Other than Fisher and Ahmed on the men's side, they have no chance for Zurich and Brussels, I believe, but they can run Lausanne and elsewhere.
Im not sure how many times this has to be repeated before some of you idiots get the memo, but athletes are tested far more often out of competition than they are during. Altitude camp does not shield you from the drug testers, as we saw with Shelby.
If your reading comprehension was above a 3rd grade level, you'd understand that by going to less accessible areas at altitude to train, it makes it harder for doping authorities to send drug testers to collect out-of-competition samples.
Remote areas like Saint Moritz where literally every distance runner on the planet trains? Or maybe Flagstaff (Do they even have internet there??). Absolutely idiotic post, stop talking about issues you do not understand.
If your reading comprehension was above a 3rd grade level, you'd understand that by going to less accessible areas at altitude to train, it makes it harder for doping authorities to send drug testers to collect out-of-competition samples.
Remote areas like Saint Moritz where literally every distance runner on the planet trains? Or maybe Flagstaff (Do they even have internet there??). Absolutely idiotic post, stop talking about issues you do not understand.
1.) I see your critiques of my post have moved on straw manning "they test out of competition" to insulting me for being "idiotic." Ironic for someone so defensive about their inability to comprehend arguments.
2.) Continuously moving from training location to training location for temporay stinits makes it harder for USADA, WADA, and the AIU to coordinate logistics for testing. Plus Flagstaff and St. Moritz are relatively small cities (76,000 and 4,000, respectfully) that probably don't have many (if any!) qualified professionals that could be hired to properly collect samples. Plus, they are pretty far from any metro areas, thus making it even harder and expensive to send people to get them. Notice that Shelby was popped by the AIU in Portland, a large metro area, not at one of their smaller population altitude camps.