Jeff Wigand wrote:
how it works wrote:Show us proof. Otherwise, it was an oversight on your part.
It was 4:21. I saw it, as well.
Ok, so do something about it- don't come on Letsrun to complain about it. File a grievance. Get a lot of people involved.
To the NEW ERA PERSONS at USATF:
If the target is to get a one race final (12 athletes) you inform people that the standard is shortest 12 times in the window. If you allow using times for two distances to Q you must indicate the procedure to codify those two lists and assign ordinal positions.
Joseph Templeton wrote:
The indoor qualifying standard for USA Indoor Championships was posted for months at 4:21 for women's 1500 meters. Two athletes at the Lobo Open in Albuquerque (Brooks Beasts) run the qualifying standard to only find out that USATF changed the standard to 4:11 or something like that right before they ran. The athletes were very upset since they planned out their racing schedule and now may not have another opportunity to qualify. Calls to USATF have not been helpful. When USATF sets a standard they should not change it at the last minute and not inform folks. If you didn't go to the USATF website at the last minute no one would have ever know. Way to hurt the athletes again USATF.
Too bad Danny.
- Max
how it works wrote:
Get a lot of people involved.
I'd think posting on Letsrun would would be one way of doing this
I have no dog in the fight here but every single person on this site would bitch and complain if they made the publicized standard, only to have the standard changed. No one that is competent at USATF (Duffy Mahoney) could see that the mile standard wasn't equivalent to the 1500 standard. Any college coach would have looked and seen the difference. But no matter what, the athletes prepared, raced, and achieved the standard only to be told that it was not longer the standard. This is just BS. I sense a real dislike for the Brooks people on this website and don't understand why. I know several of them and they are really nice people, far nicer than the Nike folks. This just sucks for them since everyone just assumes they can go someplace else and hit the standard but when your training/racing schedule has been established, and you have commitments to other meets it just is inappropriate.
It appears that posters on here are missing the point. It was USATF screw-up (again) from the beginning and athletes are the ones to suffer.
reader of the forums wrote:
how it works wrote:Get a lot of people involved.
I'd think posting on Letsrun would would be one way of doing this
Continuing to post on Letsrun accomplishes nothing.