2005 US CLUB XC ...possible date change?

Pete,

We would prefer the week prior but we will be there either way.

Kevin Hanson

Hansons-Brooks Distance Project

Pete,

We also would prefer the following weekend. As it stands now with the meet on Thanksgiving wseekend our masters squad would not be able attend and our open squads would be severly limited.

Thanks for asking our opinion.

Joe

The following weekend??

Joe

Here are your choices.

1. Thanksgiving weekend

2. The weekend before thanksgiving.

The following weekend is not a choice.

The weekend prior to Thanksgiving would be much better, I imagine for almost everyone and certainly for me.

Either one would be fine, but I would prefer it to be the week before.

Thanksgiving weekend was actually an option? No way could I, or most others I know, be there. The week before is fine. Let's try to keep our priorities straight and respect family time as well as this unique "American" holiday. See you there on the 19th.

I opine that the Thanksgiving weekend will affect the Masters community more that the Open crowd. There is a higher probability that the Masters group will have personal conflicts with the race on Thanksgiving Saturday.

A diminished crowd will also affect revenues. I wonder if that is a consideration.

The suggested earlier November date might also have better weather.

Thanks for asking.

If you move to the 19th you cut out all of the colligians. Also, is it not a problem that you were awarded the race for the date and it has been advertised for well over a year now? Either way I will be sending some kids up.

Yeah that will make it a tough weekend for some that want to go to NCAA's and Club's. I don't think it's a big deal that collegiate athletes don't go, it's not a whole lot that go anyway, and this is really the CLUB champs at the end of the day. And it's a whole lot better than Thanksgiving.

Why won't the first weekend in December work? Isn't that when it normally is?

just curious...if planning is so far in advance, why then the onflict w/ the club race and the convention? couldn't this be avoided? doesn't it make more sense to find a single venue that can serve both functions...(i.e. portland)? more importantly, can we find a date that sticks from year-to-year...or at least a location that can accomodate both race and convention?

Peter -

As I've already opined, I much prefer the weekend prior to Thanksgiving, as my club wouldn't be able to attend the meet over T-Day weekend.

Like many masters (as stated above), our family committments take precedent.

My only concern with the new date (though it doesn't really affect us in So Cal) is that there might be a conflict with various Association finals. If that can be worked out, then I think you'd certainly see a far better turnout (both open and masters) on a non-holiday weekend.

In either case, thanks for considering the change! It's good to know that GVH is doing their best to accomodate the athletes involved!

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The following weekend??

Joe

Here are your choices.

1. Thanksgiving weekend

2. The weekend before thanksgiving.

The following weekend is not a choice.

Opps. The weekend prior (11/19) is what I meant.

Joe

Speaking for a northern california club Thanksgiving weekend and the week before are both a disaster. We have our regional meet the weekend of November 19th and nobody from this area that I know of would go Thanksgiving weekend.

We have been doing the meet after Thanksgiving for a while now. You say that after is impossible but for us out here the alternatives is impossible. That is too bad as we got 19 people to go to this past meet and it was big hit. We were planning 30 or more for 2005 but will now have to pass and hope that we can do it in 2006.

What you are going to have is basically an east coast meet and with low particpation from the west.

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As a college coach and someone who plans on running in the race, moving it up to the 19th would not allow me to participate. Why isn't the first weekend in December an option?

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OK, I'll leave my name as always, so why isn't a December date an option? It seems taht the weekend before Thanksgiving compresses the schedule and may conflict with association champs. It's been in December for the last several years, as late as the second week when the Aggies did it last.

Thanksgiving weekend just seems like an odd choice. It's the highest travel weekend of the year, so discounted travel will be a problem and the roads are going to be packed.

I don't really have a dog in the fight, Joe'd be really digging the bottom of the barrel to put me on an Aggie team, but I'm curious why such an odd date was picked and why December isn't an option.

As a Pacific Association competitor, I'd like to hear a bit more from Joe Rubio about how he thinks the 11/19 date for nationals could work. Does he think the Pacific Association will be able and willing to change the date of its championships or is he prepared to have the Aggies (open and masters) skip the association champs to run in New York on that date?