Do you not understand how this works? USATF has zero to do with who decides to enter.
By January, many college runners aren't allowed by their college coaches to still run cross country, because the coaches need them to run track for their college. After all, that's why the college coaches give out scholarships, so that scholarship runners can run for their college.
And many high school runners have already moved on to track.
There is no point in blaming USATF when they aren't the one making the decision as to who enters.
Do you not understand how this works? USATF has zero to do with who decides to enter.
By January, many college runners aren't allowed by their college coaches to still run cross country, because the coaches need them to run track for their college. After all, that's why the college coaches give out scholarships, so that scholarship runners can run for their college.
And many high school runners have already moved on to track.
There is no point in blaming USATF when they aren't the one making the decision as to who enters.
The U20 hardly has the elite talent we have. What can we do to encourage our best to run? Without Anastasia Peters of Utah st, Jillian Candelino of Tenn, Sophia Kennedy of Stanford, Emma Stutzman of NAU, Paityn Noe of Ark and others, this will not be our best team. Those four would make the team.
USATF, you need to do better. We have a podium level team - if not a team to compete for 2nd - and you're not sending them. Just disappointed in the USATF.
Do you not understand how this works? USATF has zero to do with who decides to enter.
By January, many college runners aren't allowed by their college coaches to still run cross country, because the coaches need them to run track for their college. After all, that's why the college coaches give out scholarships, so that scholarship runners can run for their college.
And many high school runners have already moved on to track.
There is no point in blaming USATF when they aren't the one making the decision as to who enters.
That's a narrow view of what USATF has control over. They could move up the date of the event to early December when it would be aligned better with the US season. That leaves a big gap before Worlds (in some years), but who cares.
Do you not understand how this works? USATF has zero to do with who decides to enter.
By January, many college runners aren't allowed by their college coaches to still run cross country, because the coaches need them to run track for their college. After all, that's why the college coaches give out scholarships, so that scholarship runners can run for their college.
And many high school runners have already moved on to track.
There is no point in blaming USATF when they aren't the one making the decision as to who enters.
Might this explain the (late) Stephens withdrawl?
Yes. And the extremely late Karrie Baloga withdrawal, whose coach decided that she should run a NAU home track meet yesterday.
Do you not understand how this works? USATF has zero to do with who decides to enter.
By January, many college runners aren't allowed by their college coaches to still run cross country, because the coaches need them to run track for their college. After all, that's why the college coaches give out scholarships, so that scholarship runners can run for their college.
And many high school runners have already moved on to track.
There is no point in blaming USATF when they aren't the one making the decision as to who enters.
That's a narrow view of what USATF has control over. They could move up the date of the event to early December when it would be aligned better with the US season. That leaves a big gap before Worlds (in some years), but who cares.
That makes no sense. Most of these college U20 runners are only running in today's meet in order to qualify for Worlds.
If their college coach wouldn't let them run Worlds in February because it would conflict with their college conference indoor track meets, then there would be no point in December for them to try to qualify for Worlds when they had no intention to go.
I was thinking about one thing. Tell me if you agree.
Teare has to beat Hocker. If Teare - a strength based 1500/5 guy - can't beat Hocker, one of the US's best 1500 guys, at 10k, then it shows his endurance isn't good enough. If he has both less endurance and less speed than Hocker, he's pretty much screwed right?
The one caveat might be that Hocker was a much better high school xc runner but this course is pretty flat and is likely rock solid today so it should run like a 10k on the track. Wonder if the footing would be good enough for anyone to wear the marathon moon shoes.
I was thinking about one thing. Tell me if you agree.
Teare has to beat Hocker. If Teare - a strength based 1500/5 guy - can't beat Hocker, one of the US's best 1500 guys, at 10k, then it shows his endurance isn't good enough. If he has both less endurance and less speed than Hocker, he's pretty much screwed right?
The one caveat might be that Hocker was a much better high school xc runner but this course is pretty flat and is likely rock solid today so it should run like a 10k on the track. Wonder if the footing would be good enough for anyone to wear the marathon moon shoes.
looks like some of the turns are a bit slippery. How many times has Teare beaten Hocker at 1500 or mile? I think more often than the other way.
I was thinking about one thing. Tell me if you agree.
Teare has to beat Hocker. If Teare - a strength based 1500/5 guy - can't beat Hocker, one of the US's best 1500 guys, at 10k, then it shows his endurance isn't good enough. If he has both less endurance and less speed than Hocker, he's pretty much screwed right?
The one caveat might be that Hocker was a much better high school xc runner but this course is pretty flat and is likely rock solid today so it should run like a 10k on the track. Wonder if the footing would be good enough for anyone to wear the marathon moon shoes.
The footing is mostly fine, with a few muddy patches on the back side of the loop.
I was thinking about one thing. Tell me if you agree.
Teare has to beat Hocker. If Teare - a strength based 1500/5 guy - can't beat Hocker, one of the US's best 1500 guys, at 10k, then it shows his endurance isn't good enough. If he has both less endurance and less speed than Hocker, he's pretty much screwed right?
The one caveat might be that Hocker was a much better high school xc runner but this course is pretty flat and is likely rock solid today so it should run like a 10k on the track. Wonder if the footing would be good enough for anyone to wear the marathon moon shoes.
My feeling is the chilly temps & biting wind make today's race more XC than track, despite the relatively flat course, and I trust Hocker more than Teare to better measure his effort over 10k. Whatever the separation btwn the two, I don't think today's result will indicate much about either's prospects long term, esp if both land on the podium.
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