All track meets at University of Washington are now college-only

Banana Bread wrote:

jamin wrote:

Used to have 1 indoor Open meet and 2 outdoor Open meets. Got rid of one of the outdoor ones a couple years ago. This year got rid of the remaining Open meets and the rest that allowed unattached/club are now college-only, plus got rid of the Open division of the Subdodger Invitational this year. Oh well. I probably shouldn't be wasting life running at age 30 anyways.

Look at Bekele, the best runner in the world. He is 36 and has a lot left in the tank. That is 6 years more then 30. He still has an Olympic Gold medal and marathon WR ahead of him, and God knows what else he decides to add to his resume.

Bekele is done-zo, pal.

hahaha hard ban on jamin hahahahaa

vivalarepublica wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

Look at Bekele, the best runner in the world. He is 36 and has a lot left in the tank. That is 6 years more then 30. He still has an Olympic Gold medal and marathon WR ahead of him, and God knows what else he decides to add to his resume.

Bekele is done-zo, pal.

Wrong.

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That is bad in itself and as a harbinger for the rest of the country. We already cannot compete in most xc or track meets; most high school and college tracks are off-limits. Even pros often have difficulty getting track access. Talk about killing the sport.

It would be fine to impose a decent standard to keep out athletes that would literally slow down the entire meet, but your own terms indicate that you are wrong, because you say that "meets are held primarily for competitive opportunities for their athletes" and the inclusion of open athletes merely increases those competitive opportunities. It also increases the market for track and field and promotes charitable giving to programs, developing the sport.

Do like we used to do back in the day...do Lydiard base work in the winter with the occasional road race thrown in, and hit the all comers meets hard in the summer. They still have those there, right?

In Seattle all of the public high school tracks are open to the public. Most private schools don’t have a track, except for Lakeside. I used to run on that track about 15 years ago and never got kicked off.

CCB wrote:

In Seattle all of the public high school tracks are open to the public. Most private schools don’t have a track, except for Lakeside. I used to run on that track about 15 years ago and never got kicked off.

You might want to consider the difference between "track" and "track meet".

jamin wrote:

Used to have 1 indoor Open meet and 2 outdoor Open meets. Got rid of one of the outdoor ones a couple years ago. This year got rid of the remaining Open meets and the rest that allowed unattached/club are now college-only, plus got rid of the Open division of the Subdodger Invitational this year. Oh well. I probably shouldn't be wasting life running at age 30 anyways.

Where do you see that unattached/club can't race? Doesn't look like that to me based off direct athletics, you should need to be reasonably quick.

Did you see this somewhere? Here about it?

I'd really like to know what this thread is based on. Thanks!

This thread was based on faulty information. Non-collegiates can run, but there are only 3 meets and the entry standards are 4:07 and 4:04. Other indoor venues like BU and Armory have 20+ meets in the Winter and none as exclusive.

There are also a couple changes coming that will give athletes a little more room and also some warmup space.

Awesome. Thank you.

jamin wrote:

This thread was based on faulty information. Non-collegiates can run, but there are only 3 meets and the entry standards are 4:07 and 4:04. Other indoor venues like BU and Armory have 20+ meets in the Winter and none as exclusive.

I think what you meant to say is you were wrong

jamin wrote:

Oh well. I probably shouldn't be wasting life running at age 30 anyways.

What the hell? Are people actually this annoying? Go see a psychologist.

Here you go dude.

https://gohuskies.com/sports/2014/7/8/209542300.aspx

It sounds like USATF should create a league of some sorts that gives post-collegians opportunities to compete.

Fascinating.