I thought people from Harvard were supposed to be smart?
What championship is being contested this year?
World XC, USA Indoors, World Indoors, USA Champs, DL Final, Ultimate WC….he doesn’t have to do all of them but there are plenty of worthwhile championships this year. Are you even a fan of this sport?
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I thought people from Harvard were supposed to be smart?
What championship is being contested this year?
World XC, USA Indoors, World Indoors, USA Champs, DL Final, Ultimate WC….he doesn’t have to do all of them but there are plenty of worthwhile championships this year. Are you even a fan of this sport?
As a matter of fact I believe indoor track should be banned. Weird off-distance races too while we're at it.
Grant Fisher: "He first spoke with New York Road Runners, the non-profit organization in charge of the event, in November. We might have seen Fisher on the roads last year but for the World Championships being held in Tokyo, Japan, in the middle of September, where he doubled-up on the track in the 5,000m and 10,000m, finishing eighth in both finals. “It’s a lot of unknown, especially in an off-year (with no global championships). At this point in my career, it’s fun to shake things up,” he said during a 30-minute video call from the high-altitude of Flagstaff, Arizona, a change of scenery having been “snowed out” of Park City, Utah, where he lives and usually trains in the surrounding mountains. Fisher picked the New York race because of the sense of occasion, but the mid-March date also means he can run a full indoor season and have time to prepare for the biggest half marathon in the United States, which follows part of the city’s full marathon course."
Grant Fisher: "He first spoke with New York Road Runners, the non-profit organization in charge of the event, in November. We might have seen Fisher on the roads last year but for the World Championships being held in Tokyo, Japan, in the middle of September, where he doubled-up on the track in the 5,000m and 10,000m, finishing eighth in both finals. “It’s a lot of unknown, especially in an off-year (with no global championships). At this point in my career, it’s fun to shake things up,” he said during a 30-minute video call from the high-altitude of Flagstaff, Arizona, a change of scenery having been “snowed out” of Park City, Utah, where he lives and usually trains in the surrounding mountains. Fisher picked the New York race because of the sense of occasion, but the mid-March date also means he can run a full indoor season and have time to prepare for the biggest half marathon in the United States, which follows part of the city’s full marathon course."
Note the bolded part.
Note the parentheses. If Fisher actually said that there are "no global championships" in 2026, then he was obviously wrong. But I'm guessing that when he referred to 2026 as "an off-year," he was simply noting that 2026 does not include world outdoor track or Olympic athletics championships. He's too sportsmanlike and too knowledgeable about the sport to relegate the world cross-country championships to anything less than a "global championship."