OhioBuff wrote:
not flagpole wrote:
Ohio has there meet on an abomination of a course. Ran down NHRA drag strip, where everything is roped of and a mile of going back and forth on itself.
Personally, I enjoy the drag strip. It's a good course from a spectators perspective and I've never felt like it was more challenging than some of the other courses in Ohio.
You have to be joking, right? Let me list the problems.
1. The start is so far away from the stands, you can't hear the gun go off and don't know when the race started.
2. If you watch the start, you now have to run 3/8ths of a mile to see them at the beginning of the dragstrip.
3. When the runners get there, they are still bunched up and have to make a 180 turn with some runners tripping over the padding they put on the concrete dragstrip divider.
4. The mile mark is behind the fence behind the opposing grandstand. You have to run another 1/4 mile and then watch them run the back loop. The fans in the regular stands can't see that.
5. Once they complete this and head for the 2 mile mark, EVERYBODY would need binoculars to see them because they don't allow anybody in that area.
6. If you are following the race, you now have to run 5/8ths of a mile back to where you started to see the runners coming out of the woods
7. COMING OUT OF THE FREAKING WOODS? Why would ANY meet run runners through the woods at a critical time and NOT ALLOW ANY FANS to be able to see them?
8. When the runners are running the last half mile, no fans are allowed within 50 yards of them. You now have to sprint toward the grandstand to see the finish. If you were sitting in the stands, you dont see the runners for the last mile until the sprint beside the dragstrip.
What pi55es me off is how easy this would be to fix so they had a much more fan friendly course and the fans (especially the kids) could be closer to the runners cheering for them instead of having to yell a football field away.