Tyson Rexing wrote:
We don't need less of this, we need MORE of this. Watching distance running is much like watching golf, synchronized swimming or paint dry. We need to have less of these 'color' crap 5ks, obstacle 5ks and other gimmick events. You want a gimmick? Full contact 5k. I might not be able to break 15 anymore but at 6'1" and 210# I can pummel the hell out of people like I couldn't when I was a wisp of an athlete. Can I keep up with the Kenyans? Yes - Long enough to put a handful of them in the ICU. Distance running is like my sex life. It lost it's spice a long long long time ago. A full contact 5k would be way better than any of these color runs, hot dog eating contests or 'mud runs' that make up summer months these days.
Exactly.
Why not running 'roller derby style' racing as a more exciting format?
The US relay team would still not get the baton around the track…but it would not matter as much as it does now.
The US runners would almost all (except Galen) do better in this style of racing.
Think of how much better Ben True would do in a 5K or 10K.
Who would become the new top male and female middle distance and distance runners in this new exciting format for the 2017 Summer Take Down Track Seriesâ„¢?
My team picks Alexa Efraimson.
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