I’ve only seen the courses in the Northwest, OR, WA, MT, and ID. Oregon takes the #1 spot. It is mostly bark chip and grass, some small hills that keep it honest but don’t slow it down too much. There’s one stretch in the first mile that you can’t really watch, but from about 1.25 miles to the finish you can stand in one spot and watch the whole thing. Also it finishes in a track stadium with tons of spectators.
Wisconsin has a very legitimate state course. /thread
The Floyd wrote:
Yeah, agreed, and that's what I said: the curbs, especially near the start, are a safety issue. But having run it myself 3-4 times decades ago (like I said, Woodward park has a LOT of history) and having been there recently, there's a part of me that thinks you'd have to be an idiot to trip coming off that curb near the start because everyone knows it's there! Still, it's always a tight pack and might take some by surprise as they're focused on the race, and a great course shouldn't have something like that. So I agree with Coach B that it's an ok course but nothing to write home about. I like that it has a lot of history though.
Nice user name too. :-)
The Pink wrote:
Only beef with the CA course is the curb you step off a few hundred meters into the race that is not visible to many of the runners. There are falls here every year and it does unfortunately impact a few kids and teams races. At least one person lost a state title because of it.
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Agreed people shouldn’t be tripping but I’ve coached two kids that have fallen there. One was a 15:45 guy there that maybe lost 10-15 seconds going down and having to fight his way through the back of the pack. Not a huge deal for our team score.
The other one was heartbreaking. Someone to his side tripped and reached out to steady himself. In the process he grabbed our kids jersey and pulled him down which then caused 4 others to come down. One kid didn’t get back up. The kid I was coaching essentially had to start from last place and it took him almost 2 miles to get back to the front of the race. He was finally in the lead making the last turn with 4-500 meters to go but got didn’t have enough gas to hold on for the win. Still ended up being an all-American at Footlocker but that individual title would have been nice to have. It didn’t effect our team score thankfully as he was still the #1 team scorer.
The curb doesn’t serve much purpose there and could easily be removed.
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winnr1 wrote:
Oklahoma's course is complete trash.
Only a couple of short hills and a few really sharp turns where if one is on the inside they risk getting knocked into a pole. The course cuts across come pavement and goes through a largely unmonitored woodsy area where it would be easy for someone to get pushed off the trail and get injured.
Honestly any course in Oklahoma is pretty bad. Carl Albert would be good but it's not marked well and it's easy to cut corners. Norman would be good but it runs across sidewalks and has some too sharp turns. Guthrie held a meet this year and theirs would be good if it was an actual 5k instead of 2.8 miles. Deer Creek is super rutted at the start. I'm inclined to say that Piedmont had the best course aside from being a bit narrow, but alas the school is building a softball field over it.
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