Colorado bans hay bales for High School Cross Country Races

M.C. Confusing wrote:

Colorado XC wrote:

This boils down to largely a liability issue for officials.

And once again, lawyers and sue happy jerks have ruined everyone's fun.

Yet you people go on and on about America the great and all of your freedoms.

What a laughingstock.

EXHS wrote:

Looked it up.

9-3-1b

b. No ground obstructions which might cause tripping, turned ankles, etc. No

overhead objects such as tree branches lower than 8 feet above the ground.

How often is this rule actually enforced? Exposed ground roots and tree branches below 8' are common at many of the meets I have attended. I see many courses where they mark the roots with orange paint. Worrying about hay bales seems silly.

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What's any of this got to do with the history of XC? Are people suggesting the ancients put hay bales in the way of the first XC runners? Hah!

Thread Follower wrote:

EXHS wrote:

Looked it up.

9-3-1b

b. No ground obstructions which might cause tripping, turned ankles, etc. No

overhead objects such as tree branches lower than 8 feet above the ground.

How often is this rule actually enforced? Exposed ground roots and tree branches below 8' are common at many of the meets I have attended. I see many courses where they mark the roots with orange paint. Worrying about hay bales seems silly.

I'm always astounded by people who think it's "silly" to follow the rules. next time you get pulled over for going 120 mph in a 70 zone tell the cop you saw someone going 75 and you think him pulling you over is silly.

EXHS wrote:

Thread Follower wrote:

How often is this rule actually enforced? Exposed ground roots and tree branches below 8' are common at many of the meets I have attended. I see many courses where they mark the roots with orange paint. Worrying about hay bales seems silly.

I'm always astounded by people who think it's "silly" to follow the rules. next time you get pulled over for going 120 mph in a 70 zone tell the cop you saw someone going 75 and you think him pulling you over is silly.

Not a good comparison - pulling you over for doing 75 in a 70 zone is silly, like worrying about hay bales on a CROSS COUNTRY course. Not enforcing the idiot doing 120 in a 70 zone is wrong as would having 10' walls that needed to be scaled during a CROSS COUNTRY race, but hale bales barely break the rhythm of a runner and are not at all dangerous.

So what's their point?

#BringBackTheHayBale

This is nothing to get uproarious about.

Pollly P wrote:

So what's their point?

Hay bales are a stupid gimmick.

Less than probably 2% of colorado HS races are affected by this. It's just liability stuff.

The hurdles are gone. Athletes must promise to jump the requisite height at the proper interval. This is surprisingly easy to do after a bowl of Indica Kush.

Cooptastic wrote:

Are hurdles still allowed during track season?