Additional Facts wrote:
Fact: You also omitted NYAC's #4 (who finished ahead of all MTC) also lives and trains with #8,9,10,11,12,15,16,17,18 in Central Park
Where in Central Park do they live?
Additional Facts wrote:
Fact: You also omitted NYAC's #4 (who finished ahead of all MTC) also lives and trains with #8,9,10,11,12,15,16,17,18 in Central Park
Where in Central Park do they live?
The NYAC has an underground lair near Bethesda Fountain. If you can find the appropriate stone to turn, it will let you into a 60 room luxury compound, fully equipped with massage therapists, a swimming pool, weights and alter-G treadmills.
That's pretty foolish to enforce a rule that team members living across the Hudson from NYC (for economic reasons, obviously) and training in NYC every day are ineligible to compete at USATF XC. Few other cities are going to have that issue. If you live in the same metro area, there's no reason to block them, and in fact the rule should just state something like you are a team member and maybe you have raced x number of races with the team in the same year.
CPTC, NYAC, MTC, WTC, have ineligible members by this rule. MTC would be dq'd if anyone cared about 10th place. Now that it's public information that they are knowingly breaking the rules, I find it hard to believe that they can improve without being at risk of getting dq'd.
I agree that this rule should change. If you are close enough where you could work or train in NYC, then you should be able to be part of a NYC team and complete in USATF Cross Club Champs.
rules enforcer wrote:
CPTC, NYAC, MTC, WTC, have ineligible members by this rule. MTC would be dq'd if anyone cared about 10th place. Now that it's public information that they are knowingly breaking the rules, I find it hard to believe that they can improve without being at risk of getting dq'd.
Having members that don't meet USATF's ridiculous qualifications is one thing and something that every team/club has. Fraudulently changing member's addresses to make ineligible members magically eligible is an entirely different matter. Before throwing CPTC, NYAC and WTC under the bus with MTC, you make want to check your facts first, because I think that you are going to be disappointed to learn that some clubs actually do follow the rules and only use eligible members for USATF events.
for example wrote:
Central Park Track Club has been lying about their top runner's address for the last several years. She also lives in NJ.
CPTC is not lying at all. She lives on the Upper East Side. Ask her fiance or the group she mets to run every morning at 6am. I'm sure they will vouch for it