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Portland, OR
Joined November 2011
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I don’t know exactly what this means but it feels like the Auto Standards should now be:
3:30.5 for Worlds
3:32.5 for USAs
Grand Slam Track should end each meet with a 4x4.
Teams are built with 4 competitors from different event groups:
Short Distance
Long Distance
Short Sprints
Long Sprints
Long Hurdles
You have to run faster than what the collegiate records were when I was in college to get into NCAAs in the Mile and 3k
and I’m not even old, right?
RIGHT???
Man.
I’m genuinely sports fan / vacation guy bummed about World Road Champs not being in San Diego.
So long beach.
Goodbye course-side screaming in flippy floppies.
Bye bye rooftop umbrella drink oceanside bar with TV streaming replays at sunset.
Wavelight at champs might be interesting…
but only if the racers can’t see it.
Like a first down line or the WR line in swimming.
In no way should it influence runners’ decisions.
Even as a strictly audience focused mechanism I’m not completely sold.
Racing is the focus
Time is a description of the effort it takes to defeat an opponent.
It takes great opponents to achieve great efforts
The efforts in the Mile and 3,000m at the Millrose Games yesterday were world record ones.
🧵Big that GST was able to get on both network TV and streaming (CW & Peacock). Congrats to their team! Their goal this year is to show numbers.
They’re attempting to shift the leverage at the negotiating table for track.
If GST can show numbers, they can go back to the negotiating table and push track from being a pay to be seen property to a pay for property.
A restaurant in Prague where food and drink orders are delivered to your table by train
xitter.cf/visualfeastwang/status…
It’s time to once again remind myself of this.
Back in my day, Leo Manzano was the coolest bc he was the only college kid breaking 4.
We also texted on keypads with real buttons ;)
