I was curious if anyone on this board has ever competed in the Rochester Relays (NY). My dad says he ran it in 1976 when he went to a D3 college, but I have not yet found anyone else would can vouch for this meet having ever existed. Thanks,
I was curious if anyone on this board has ever competed in the Rochester Relays (NY). My dad says he ran it in 1976 when he went to a D3 college, but I have not yet found anyone else would can vouch for this meet having ever existed. Thanks,
I can tell you that it existed as an indoor meet throughout the 1980's at least. Ran in it four times. Mainly NY state D3 teams competed.
Ran it 3 times in the late 70s. Very cool meet, esp. going through the tunnel. They gave watches out to the winning relay teams.
The tunnel? Please to explain?
About 1/3 of the indoor track goes thru a tunnel. The track itself is terrible. It is pretty much a rectangle. Impossiblr for sprinters (300m/600m) guys to run on.
Is there an outdoor Rochester Relays? My dad claims he did the 4x440yd hurdle relay at that meet.
Give Tim Hale a call. He's now the AD at Oswego and coached at the University of Rochester for years. He's a great guy, loves to talk track and I'm sure he'd give you any information he could.
Vin wrote:
Give Tim Hale a call. He's now the AD at Oswego and coached at the University of Rochester for years. He's a great guy, loves to talk track and I'm sure he'd give you any information he could.
http://athletics.oswego.edu/staff.aspx?staff=9
Thanks for that info. I'll contact him and see if he can let me know if my dad is bsing me or not.
Ok, new question:
does anyone remember running a relay carnival at RIT in the early/mid 1970s?
A word on the indoor track at UR. It sucks less than visiting teams think. It is a bit square on one end, has a tunnel on the other with a vertical wall on the inside so you can't lean in, and has inconsistent banking. There is a lot of skill and practice in running on it right - sort of like NASCAR where you don't see the cars always running on the inside lane line. You could slingshot out of the turns if you hit it correctly. Lots of passing on the inside if people drifted too far out. It was always a huge home team advantage. Great place to watch a race. 3-4 guys would go into the tunnel (which is probably about 75m of running) and they would emerge in a completely different order and you'd wonder what the heck went on in there.
It is >200m so the splits are almost impossible to figure out. The best part is if you were in a race that started in the tunnel. The sound of the starting gun would scare the crap out of you.
RIT used to host distance carnival back in the day, but no idea on the details. Pete Todd (former RIT coach) would be the guy to talk to, but he is very much a recluse. Still lives in Rochester, just north of the airport.
"Sucks less than visiting teams think."
No. It simply sucks and the reasons you gave for why it is good are why it is a bad track. How is it a "great place to watch a race" when you cant even tell how fast the runners are going? The 1242m split doesn't really mean all that much to me...or anyone else.
Sure I bet it's cool to work out on since anything else will seem fast as f*** by comparison, but it is a terrible facility. I ran on it enough times to get a pretty good idea how to run the turns and I still think it blows. I can't find the facility records but it is simply slow, much slower than a normal flat track even.
Soooo....I disagree with your analysis.
NERP wrote:
RIT used to host distance carnival back in the day, but no idea on the details. Pete Todd (former RIT coach) would be the guy to talk to, but he is very much a recluse. Still lives in Rochester, just north of the airport.
That's what I have heard from the current coach at RIT. Does anyone else remember anything about that RIT carnival though?
I know that there is a Rochester Relays meet for the high school league in the area. And UofR is a terrible track, no excuses.