13 States with no OT Marathon Trials Qualifiers

InWyo wrote:

I read once that Billings Montana had the fastest average marathon time of any US city (residents of, not their marathon). There are also quite a few "on the fringe" of qualifying in Montana (Sarah Graves, Alan King, Mike Wolf) and have always had female qualifiers (Karen Gall, Kathy Aragon Nicole Hunt).

Montana has many great places and many great races. South Dakota sucks unless in the Black Hills. Wyoming also sucks (I know) Unless in Jackson, Lander, or Sheridan.

I previously wrote:

Montana has some nice areas to run in the spring through fall and a few good ultra runners.

Basically you have just wasted everybody's time: including mine. I already said Montana isn't a terrible place to run six months out of the year. The fact the fringe runners better get their butts in gear and get qualified ASAP. The Trials are in January and it is going to be October in a few days.

Now will people stop responding to this thread.

wack job wrote:

Where are you from?

Colorado

compliant one wrote:

Nebraska

Quite the running scene there. A woman who was slower than the OT qualifying standard was the third overall finisher yesterday in the Omaha Marathon, one of the biggest races in the state. Great to see two men being able to hold her off.

Sub 36 would have won you the men's 10K and sub 43:30 would have brought home the first place cash in the women's division.

They don't and won't have any qualifiers in the 2012 Trials (and have no prospects at this point) so bringing up having one four years ago isn't helpful. Listen to the OP and stop responding to his thread.

All the good runners in the ND, SD, and Nebraska move to Minnesota or Wisconsin to live because the running is so much better. People from Wyoming probably move west.

I always enjoy your posts. Keep up the good work.

No collegiate mens cross country or track programs in NV since something like 95 or 96. If you want to run in college you have no other option but to go out of state. Not too many people are coming back to NV once they leave given the state of our economy.

I think you were right to ask people not to respond because most of these responses don't add anything to the thread.

With Tahoe and some nice parks for running, I wouldn't mind training in Nevada, but it's sad to hear they don't have a men's collegiate program.

I'm really interested to know who made it from Oklahoma? It's a crap state for distance running and they all have a bad case of "big fish in little pond" syndrome.

Nevada has some great places all over the state for training, such as Lovelock, Winnemucca, Ely, Eureka, Austin, etc.

Las Vegas is not so bad for training except in the summer.

Maybe we can get Nevada OFF your list of non-qualifiers by the end of next month. We shall see.

l49 wrote:

I'm really interested to know who made it from Oklahoma? It's a crap state for distance running and they all have a bad case of "big fish in little pond" syndrome.

Don't know about men, but Ann Marie Chappell ran 2:45 at Lincoln.

Camille Herron is also from OK. 2:38 PR and multiple qualifiers in the 2:40s.

Trey McCain and Graham Tribble is that you!?!?!??!!?

Mattie Suver (University of Oregon All American) is from Wyoming and qualified.

Is this for men and women? or just men?

InWyo wrote:

I read once that Billings Montana had the fastest average marathon time of any US city (residents of, not their marathon). There are also quite a few "on the fringe" of qualifying in Montana (Sarah Graves, Alan King, Mike Wolf) and have always had female qualifiers (Karen Gall, Kathy Aragon Nicole Hunt).

Montana has many great places and many great races. South Dakota sucks unless in the Black Hills. Wyoming also sucks (I know) Unless in Jackson, Lander, or Sheridan.

Are you saying that Rawlins and Rock Springs are bad places to live? Towns like that breed alcoholics!! Flat, windy, and freezing with nothing to do. Brings back bad memories.

Is there a link to the official list?

Isn't Mike Morgan from Nebraska?

I believe Andrew Carlson is from North Dakota. but trains in Minnesota.

I imagine the OP looked at the following list:

http://www.usatf.org/events/2012/OlympicTrials-Marathon/entry/entryMen/eligible.asp

Which is a bit missleading if you are claiming that people live ther. Some people like Hartmann or Browne are listed as living in a different state than they actually live (both are listed as Oregonians but Jason lives in Boulder and Dan lives in San Diego). The list simply suggests where the person registers for USATF which could be where they went to college, where they grew up or where they trained for a while etc.