Why is there no east coast alternative to Arcadia? Raleigh Relays is a great meet for collegiate distance runners, but the high schoolers are nowhere near the collection of talent at Arcadia (or Brookes PR for that matter). Surely somewhere in Virginia or North Carolina could put together a meet with similarly good weather and competition without requiring kids to cross 4 time zones each way in the middle of their season right?
East Coast Arcadia
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What about the CT Distance Festival? Does that meet your needs?
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I was wondering the same thing! Btw Raleigh relays is a joke of a HS meet, do not compare it to Arcadia. Raleigh is a collegiate meet.
arcadia, Stanford invit, Bryan clay on the west. Nothing on the east. Why? Distance talent is probably 60% West/40% east but that doesn’t explain it.
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Notrunningrelated wrote:
I was wondering the same thing! Btw Raleigh relays is a joke of a HS meet, do not compare it to Arcadia. Raleigh is a collegiate meet.
arcadia, Stanford invit, Bryan clay on the west. Nothing on the east. Why? Distance talent is probably 60% West/40% east but that doesn’t explain it.
How bout Penn Relays? great hs and college.
Vin was trying to get a Stanford type meet going at Virginia, but ran into some resistance from his acc colleagues.
In indoor, there is Virginia Showcase and Eastern States.
Probably a good opportunity for someone to step up and organize a good high school focused meet.
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east coast planner wrote:
Notrunningrelated wrote:
I was wondering the same thing! Btw Raleigh relays is a joke of a HS meet, do not compare it to Arcadia. Raleigh is a collegiate meet.
arcadia, Stanford invit, Bryan clay on the west. Nothing on the east. Why? Distance talent is probably 60% West/40% east but that doesn’t explain it.
How bout Penn Relays? great hs and college.
Vin was trying to get a Stanford type meet going at Virginia, but ran into some resistance from his acc colleagues.
In indoor, there is Virginia Showcase and Eastern States.
Probably a good opportunity for someone to step up and organize a good high school focused meet.
Penn usually has bad weather, great comp but not the kind of Arcadia times you see
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The Carolina Distance Carnival started in Charlotte NC a few years ago. we've gone the last two years from Tennessee and our kids love it.50
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Not quite Arcadia but Dogwood is a super deep meet.
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Weather plays a big part in attracting athletes. For middle distance- distance runners the nearly certain low humidity and more predictable weather patterns is a draw. The Arcadia meet has years of history behind it and they do a good job of publicizing the meet.
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The Unknown Citizen wrote:
Weather plays a big part in attracting athletes. For middle distance- distance runners the nearly certain low humidity and more predictable weather patterns is a draw. The Arcadia meet has years of history behind it and they do a good job of publicizing the meet.
I feel like the biggest part is that Arcadia already has 3 regions best distance runners trying to get into the top 3200 meter race. The big one being the southwest region. Part of this is because southwest is eager to race sea level. Northwest is eager to not race in rain. Having that much talent automatically committed will attract more talent from other regions.
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