Michigan far NCAA nat's

I would absolutely love to see NCAA's run at altitude somewhere. But that would probably never happen, cuz' too many people would complain. It would definitely be interesting though.

I think there is some gay NCAA rule that says you can't have any national championship races above 3 or 4,000 ft. It'd be great to see it, though...talk about home course advantagefor CU and NAU!

I'm just wondering why you guys think it would be great to see Nats held at altitude. Only a few teams train at any significant altitude. Those teams have an (fair) advantage when they "come down," as opposed to having 95 or more percent of the country screwed by racing in those conditions. It sounds like a real dumb idea to me. And if you guys don't train at altitude and were in a position to be racing at nationals, it would seem like a dumb idea to you, too.

Back to the topic, though, there are tons of good places to hold nats in michigan.

anywhere but Iowa St...

Its about time for one to be held in cold, snowy Wisconsis! No other place gets the crowd out for this meet. But Michigan would probably be similar. Plus I believe Michigan State was the first national collegiate power.

The hard, brutal conditions always stand out as the most memorabe meets. Last year was a joke. They might as well ran a road race in Florida.

Two memorable Wisconsin NCAA's.

Salazar winning in Madison.

Tim Hacker winning in Milwaukee, three blocks from where he grew up.

I think the reason they believe it'd be cool to see nationals run at altitude is because of how everyone says contradictory things about altitude. If someone runs a hell of a race at altitude and gets his time adjusted, people bitch about how it's not fair that he gets "that big of an adjustment". They say it's not that hard to run at altitude. But if someone from sea level goes up to altitude and runs a bad race, they blame it on altitude and say that it makes a huge difference and that's why they raced bad. So it'd just be funny cuz' all those team would struggle and gain a respect for those who run excellent times at altitude.

Michigan would be a cool place to have Nat's. I also think somewhere in the appilation mountains(but not too high alt) would be great there has to be some great state parks.

EXCELLENT place.

Where the heck are the Appilation Mtns? Sorry, I must not have been awake during that US Geography class.

geographer aspirant wrote:

Where the heck are the Appilation Mtns? Sorry, I must not have been awake during that US Geography class.

I ment the appalachian mountains.

Runs from NY in the north to Alabama in the S.

The NCAA cross-country meet was held at the Forest Akers West golf-course at Michigan State University from its inception in the 30's until the early 60's. The distance was 4 miles. Michigan in the third week of November it typically cool, windy and potentially damp. Indeed, there are a fair number of places in the Wolverine state that could host the NC meet.

How about University of Alaska... That would be a bittersweet revenge for holding track NCAAs in f'ing Louisiana!!!