Blow-track...... providing paid content for content that is already online for free. great biz model.
Blow-track...... providing paid content for content that is already online for free. great biz model.
iowafarmer wrote:
FloTrack (FloSports) is also changing the face of high school track and cross country as well.
They own Milesplit which covers a lot of the high school track scene. It is ruining the grassroots of the sport. There are no rivalries since the focus is completely on posting fast times on their Milesplit page. Kids think if they can't make the front page of their states Milesplit website they are useless. It grows the top end of the sport, but kills the developmental section of the sport. Everyone compares them self to the best in the country and they feel dejected.
I coach high school and a kid is coming back from injury and not in top shape. Just want her to get a race in as a workout and as a way to get back on the track racing. But she had the response of, "I don't want to run that because it will go on my milesplit page!" That is all the kids care about... FloSports is changing the way track is viewed.
Nice post. And this reality reminds me of what happens on this board, too. Someone asked fairly recently what decent times for a 50-year-old runner might be (I think it was), and it immediately turned into a fastest-ever talk for all older age groups. It's best-ever around here, or you might as well not exist. You might as well be a hobby-jogger. (Disclaimer: I 'ran' with my 10-year-old dog the other day, I'm a hobbyjogger.)
iowafarmer wrote:
FloTrack (FloSports) is also changing the face of high school track and cross country as well.
They own Milesplit which covers a lot of the high school track scene. It is ruining the grassroots of the sport. There are no rivalries since the focus is completely on posting fast times on their Milesplit page. Kids think if they can't make the front page of their states Milesplit website they are useless. It grows the top end of the sport, but kills the developmental section of the sport. Everyone compares them self to the best in the country and they feel dejected.
I coach high school and a kid is coming back from injury and not in top shape. Just want her to get a race in as a workout and as a way to get back on the track racing. But she had the response of, "I don't want to run that because it will go on my milesplit page!" That is all the kids care about... FloSports is changing the way track is viewed.
Seems a little shortsighted to call this "killing" part of the sport. Are runners not allowed to be competitive or want to know how their time ranks in the rest of the state? Is it really flosport's fault that track and field coverage now extends to the internet? I get that you are grumpy about kids caring about their milesplit profile, but that's the way the world works now. In other news: kids also care about their facebook, twitter and instagram profiles. SHOCKING!!
read this thread a few days ago, finally got around to watching the segment...WTF? Seriously blotrack, I want to like you guys down there in austin but what about that clip makes you think they *didn't* watch the race? Seriously, at the very least these guys had to have read an article about it and likely watched a highlight clip, if not much of the whole damn race.
The tweet was just stupid and juvenile, as many have mentioned, a perfect mimicry of the board behavior here. If you EVER want anyone to take you seriously, act like adults and carry yourselves with class. Sheesh.
iowafarmer wrote:
FloTrack (FloSports) is also changing the face of high school track and cross country as well.
They own Milesplit which covers a lot of the high school track scene. It is ruining the grassroots of the sport. There are no rivalries since the focus is completely on posting fast times on their Milesplit page. Kids think if they can't make the front page of their states Milesplit website they are useless. It grows the top end of the sport, but kills the developmental section of the sport. Everyone compares them self to the best in the country and they feel dejected.
I coach high school and a kid is coming back from injury and not in top shape. Just want her to get a race in as a workout and as a way to get back on the track racing. But she had the response of, "I don't want to run that because it will go on my milesplit page!" That is all the kids care about... FloSports is changing the way track is viewed.
Milesplit did the rankings years ago...I don't think FloSports changed that much.
nobody on my team in HS ever mentioned milesplit/letsrun/etc. maybe your situation is different
I stopped following Flotrack when they started showing 5 year olds competing in National 400m finals! WTF just imagine drop kick dad having his son out on the track running 250's to increase his lactate tolerance to win next year's event!
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