Article on the drive to Boulder on 36 … except they don’t want you to drive.
Pro track sponsorships continue to wither, despite solid performances. Just like has been discussed in the MUT space, it is not about the performances, it is about the story. Not a story that sells to the mass public, no $.
Yes, wild burros and mustangs run free in the west. And if you want, you can get one. The program is looking at some changes though.
Ironman Boulder. Wow. No interest in participating though. Boulder has now an IM and the US XC champs in 14.
Catching up on some podcasts … nice to hear the Clark segment in this TalkUltra. Rob Krar is the key interview in that segment – of course a guy folks are wondering about for next weekend given his demolition of the R2R2R FKT. I am way behind on the Talkultra casts … they are good but they are incredibly long, even listening to them at 2x playback speed.
A bit of back and forth over on ET as to whether blogs (like this one perhaps) are really just a narcissistic self ego stroke of “look at me.”
"It's a hard way to break people. It's one thing to out-kick people or just have a nice steady pace. But to know you're in the front and know you'd have to break people one by one, that's what I was trying to do.” (I love how Alberto is floating in the background like the mother hen … e.g. 3 minutes in). Also interesting interview with women’s 10k 5th place runner Kara, who at the moment gets to go to Moscow as she has the A qualifier and Hasay and Erdmann don’t (by the way I think those two are actually each 12 years old based on this interview). Her fate is out of her hands as those two ladies can now chase the standard until July 20.
The coverage over on http://tv.usatf.org/ is incredible. I had to pick up JZ at baseball and had to step away from my computer for a bit during the women’s 10k (and missed Goucher’s fade and Hasay’s finish) but I watched the 10k with JZ on the phone. Lot of empty seats at Drake though. No surprise – track, field, running … generally it is boring. Heck, even participants in the sport don’t really care about it. How many runners at the every corner Rock N’ Roll marathon know who won it?
8.1 miles, easy. Just in circles. Apparently it is a hilly track as I gained 265 feet over this distance. It was pretty hot. But CO hot.
And this rest block ends. Ahhhh, yes.
More reasons to avoid Hwy. 36 like the plague (I will carpool... never).
ReplyDeleteThere is a definite bias against the single driver these days, which sucks for me. It's become a trigger for public shaming, like putting people in stocks in the town square. Actually, it's not simply driving alone, it's daring to hold any personal value that doesn't involve approval by a committee and holding hands in a big circle.
265 feet of gain on a track: they must have been trying to save money on surveyors.
Mtnrunner, you might be the new captain for the GOM team. (grumpy old men)
DeleteThe article about track sponsorship and blog narcissism are in many ways directly related. No doubt that the whole blog/twitter/facebook thing is partly related to attracting attention that drives up ones stock when it comes to obtaining sponsorship.
ReplyDeleteSome of that elevation on the track is probably just due to GPS inaccuracies...notice that you did not always end up at the same elevation for each lap.
Totally get that vert is GPS error. Funny how it just magnifies as I go around it more.
DeleteInteresting catch on the look at me and sponsorship thing. No doubt - sponsorship in running space is about selling a story and a product that compels buyers to act. Some dude getting a silver medal in something just shy of a mile, that doesn't do it.