Super 8 is $259.99/nite NO ROOMS

turtleboats wrote:

WHEN IS THE TRIALS?@! NO ONE HAS ANSWERED ME YET!

They start on a Saturday.

turtleboats wrote:

WHEN IS THE TRIALS?@! NO ONE HAS ANSWERED ME YET!

They start on a Saturday.

EUGENE SUCKS wrote:

Just called around Eugene and there's no more rooms. The Super8 is $259.99/nite and no more reservations. What a huge mistake choosing that little shit meth town for the trials !

Try planning ahead. I bought a house in Eugene in 1998, now I have a place to stay for me and all my friends...HA!

Who where did you call ?

$60 wrote:

is that a work/release or halfway house ?

turtleboats wrote:

WHEN IS THE TRIALS?@! NO ONE HAS ANSWERED ME YET!

The trials are June 27-July 6.

you rock txrunnergirl! thank you! jesus, finally someone answered me.

sacramento is better wrote:

Trials should've stayed in Sacramento.

Hey USATF: if it is not broken, don't fix it!

This is correct. Sacramento was easy to get to, plenty of rooms, easy parking, and the stands WERE packed every day in 2004. I cannot imagine revenue or attendance increasing in Eugene, and if they don't its a massive failure by USATF.

This is, after all, a business.

This is, after all, a business.

Nope.

It's hard to argue with the success of the Sacramento Trials.

Attendance records from all previous Trials were smashed both in 2000 and 2004. Hotels are plentiful, airport has convenient flights all over the place, weather is ideal for both sprinting (daytime) and distance (nighttime). No chance of rain. No humidity.

While Sacramentens aren't fanatic Pre sploogers like the folks in Eugene, they have shown they are willing to support track and field and appreciate distance running (at road race--CIM, HS--CA state meet, college--NCAAs, and pro--Trials levels).

Remember, Sacramento pulled 20,000+ fans to every day of the Trials.

I'm not saying that Eugene is a bad choice, but what did Sacramento do to lose the Trials? Absolutely nothing.

At least in Sacramento fans wouldn't be fighting for $200+ rooms as the posh Eugene Super 8!!!

Doesn't anyone sleep in their car anymore? I have traveled all over the country sleeping in my car saving a major amount of money over the years. Wal-marts or 24 hour supermarkets are a safe place to park. Of course it helps to have a Y membership for a place to shower and workout.

Sacramento passed o.k. but it wasn\'t ideal at all. The hammer is not on the field as it must be for an IAAF World Championships and the apron is too narrow at Spanos and at Hayward Field. Officials, workers, photographers can\'t walk around the entire track to do their jobs efficiently. Extra people are needed due to in inefficiency. Even though they are annoying and get in the way, we need the photographers to publicize and record the meet for the world to see. There may have been plenty of hotel rooms 10 miles away from Spanos, but Sacramento is the deadest town in the world after 10 p.m, it\'s like a dry town in the Jesus-Nazi South. The stands in 2004 were not full at all each day, and the luxury boxes and VIP section locked out the fans from viewing the high jump and the 1st turn. Track will be prime time if Home Depot ever completes it\'s planned track and field stadium, which is on hold. Until then, track and field is just a tertiary sport in the United States.

It'll still be a tertiary sport at that point, as well.

Tertiary Sport wrote:

Track will be prime time if Home Depot ever completes it's planned track and field stadium, which is on hold.

Michael Vick is to blame for that. With his arrest on dogfighting charges, Home Depot's sales dropped 17% primarily in sales of chains, rope, fencing, and lumber.

Water tanks and electrical wiring sales were also off slightly.

Company owner, Arthur Blank has been researching other means to pay for the stadium, but is at this time unable to come up with the funding he promised.

rippy cripple wrote:

Doesn't anyone sleep in their car anymore? I have traveled all over the country sleeping in my car saving a major amount of money over the years. Wal-marts or 24 hour supermarkets are a safe place to park. Of course it helps to have a Y membership for a place to shower and workout.

That seems like a good idea, but for 10+ days?! Plus, most people are flying there. The ones who drive might as well just drive back and forth. I really lucked out having a friend who lives there.

My mom was interrogated by a cop one time when he caught her sleeping in the backseat of her truck in a parking lot at a local park. It was 6 in the morning and she drove my sister and I to the park to meet our teammates for a long run (this was before we could drive). So she was sleeping back there waiting for us to get back when the cop beat on the window and asked what she was doing. Good times.

If Lance Armstrong would donate the same amount of money he\'s spent on evading WADA and USADA then we\'d have the new U.S. National Track and Field Stadium in Carson that has long been promised. Let\'s email Lance and encourage him to atone for his doping. Afterall, there\'s a kewl velodrome already at Carson.

A new hotel is being built at the Franklin/Glenwood exit on I-5. Looks to be 3 or 4 stories tall, decent sized. It's completely framed out, roofed and sheathed at this point, so I'd be surprised if it isn't open by the time the Trials arrive. It's a bit less than a 2 mile jog to Hayward from there. I'll try to find out which chain is building it and post it later.

If I may be so bold as to say this, Salem and Portland are NOT that far from Eugene, about an hour's drive I think.

There are most likely plenty of rooms in Portland and Salem.

A new Nike Intercontinental Airport with two 11,000 foot Category III ILS runways is being built at the Coburg I-5 Exit 199. It should be ready by May in time for the trials. United and Southwest will have the initial landing rights. China Airlines is negotiating for direct flights between Nike and Beijing. Just google for more information.