Less than two months until the USATF Indoor Championship and the standards are nowhere to be found.
Less than two months until the USATF Indoor Championship and the standards are nowhere to be found.
That is odd. But I suppose you could assume that meeting the IAAF standards will be good enough. How do you register for the USATF meet?
This took me a grand total of 30 seconds to find:
I hope that you are very fast because you are not very smart.
PoisonIvy wrote:
This took me a grand total of 30 seconds to find:
http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2013/USATFCS/Events/USA-Indoor-Track---Field-Championships/Athlete-Info/Qualifying.aspxI hope that you are very fast because you are not very smart.
those are last year's standards....
i.e. the championships take place in 2014,
nice job trying to call him out
They also haven't released the location of the 2016 Marathon Trials (no rush obviously) that they were supposed to announce at their annual meeting and have yet to release the USA rosters for the two international XC competitions (Edinburgh and NACAC). Looks like they taking the holiday season a little easy this year.
You hit the USATF A/B standard and then declare your result with the USATF. After a time they accept/reject your entry
Pahantuc wrote:
You hit the USATF A/B standard and then declare your result with the USATF. After a time they accept/reject your entry
How do you declare?
No standards listed yet for 2014-
http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2014/USA-Indoor-Track---Field-Championships.aspx
Maybe they will be the same standards as 2013, but who knows?
8:30 got a bronze? Sign me up.
Now I did hear as a rumor that they would be taking away the A and maybe B standard? It recent that I heard this. If their having a championship in March, they should of definitely have already put up a standard. Seeing as how World Juniors 2014 standards was put up sometime in July. Possibly the standards are gone..? Who knows what goes on when dealing with USATF..But best of luck in finding it and at Championship!
Or prize money... Not that it affects me
isn't BUPA selected at club nats and nacac selected at winter nats?
The 2014 standards have been disseminatedIf nobody else has posted them by tomorrow I'll do so.
I'm sure this is part of USATF's crappy attitude that if you have to ask what the standard is you're not worthy anyway and they don't give a flying f about you. We see this every year with outdoors and the way USATF loves to screw distance runners who have the B standard.
If you aren't a Nike athlete who ran the A standard you don't count and are just an annoyance to the USATF. And then they wonder why there's so much hostility toward USATF from most athletes.
Par for the course wrote:
I'm sure this is part of USATF's crappy attitude that if you have to ask what the standard is you're not worthy anyway and they don't give a flying f about you. We see this every year with outdoors and the way USATF loves to screw distance runners who have the B standard.
If you aren't a Nike athlete who ran the A standard you don't count and are just an annoyance to the USATF. And then they wonder why there's so much hostility toward USATF from most athletes.
No, that's why it's the B standard. It carries no guarantee. If you really want to make it into the meet, then run the A standard. It's their own fault not USATF's.
Maybe they decided to make the meet open to all USATF members, just as XC is.
osookk wrote:No, that's why it's the B standard. It carries no guarantee. If you really want to make it into the meet, then run the A standard. It's their own fault not USATF's.
It's the USATF's fault when the field at USA's consists of a handful of Nike runners with the A standard jogging around the track when there are numerous runners with the B standard who could easily have been added to the field. Part of USATF's job is to develop new talent. Refusing to give runners with the B standard a slot when there is plenty of room denies developing runners a chance to gain experience and might prevent reduce the odds of boring jogfests.
It's no different than the US sending athletes to the Olympics or Worlds who have no realistic chance of medaling. By giving as many people as you can reasonably fit in the fields a chance to compete you are increasing your odds that one of those athletes will be able to come back the next time with the experience and right frame of mind to compete for a medal.
Mr. Obvious wrote:
Maybe they decided to make the meet open to all USATF members, just as XC is.
But there's still no way to register if that's the case.
Par for the Course wrote:
It's the USATF's fault when the field at USA's consists of a handful of Nike runners with the A standard jogging around the track when there are numerous runners with the B standard who could easily have been added to the field. Part of USATF's job is to develop new talent. Refusing to give runners with the B standard a slot when there is plenty of room denies developing runners a chance to gain experience and might prevent reduce the odds of boring jogfests.
It's no different than the US sending athletes to the Olympics or Worlds who have no realistic chance of medaling. By giving as many people as you can reasonably fit in the fields a chance to compete you are increasing your odds that one of those athletes will be able to come back the next time with the experience and right frame of mind to compete for a medal.
Except that there were non-Nike athletes in that race. If you had the A, you got to race. Your shoe company affiliation is irrelevant.
Last minute scratches doesn't mean that it's a simple thing to add the B runners. That's the risk you take when you settle for the B instead of hitting the A.
well
it's tomorrow!!
please show me what to click to reveal the dissemination.
http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2014/USA-Indoor-Track---Field-Championships.aspx