[unclechuck]

Uncle Chuck, keep the track news coming!

I competed in track, and for a long time, it was my favorite sport. It fell off as I was unable to keep up with the news. (Yeah, I worked for T&FN when I was straight out of Stanford.) I also got disillusioned during the doping scandals.

My goodness, a former scribe for The Bible of the Sport; now I'm going to have to watch myself on this platform as well :-X

Similar background for me: very taken with T&F in 70s but the mendacious governing bodies and the doping biz lost me too. Plus, as you said, it was just hard to keep up with it.

North County San Diego has a lot of high quality high school T&F that gets pretty good coverage and I have friends whose kids compete so I started following it again a few years ago.

Current Stanford freshman middle distance runner Alli Billmeyer had a nice career just up the road from me, and in following her I became aware of another current freshman, New Yorker Aisling Cuffe, who was the top ranked HS girl in the 1600 and 3200 last year. So, starting to see kind of a nice pattern here - national recruiting working once again for the Farm.

Plus, internet access to meet results / videos continues to improve yearly, so the sport is becoming easier to follow from afar.

For me, T&F is somewhere between baseball and horse racing on the 'competition per minute' continuum so, as with those sports, a lot of the enjoyment is contingent on a reasonable knowledge of tactics, technique, training & goals, competitors' status etc. Pretty nerd-centric and lots of time between races / events to ruminate and speculate with other spectators between the bursts of activity, which can be breathtaking.

Will be happy to contribute when I can, but not sure I have lead dog capabilities.

[unclechuck]

Uncle Chuck, keep the track news coming!

I competed in track, and for a long time, it was my favorite sport. It fell off as I was unable to keep up with the news. (Yeah, I worked for T&FN when I was straight out of Stanford.) I also got disillusioned during the doping scandals.

My goodness, a former scribe for The Bible of the Sport; now I'm going to have to watch myself on this platform as well :-X

Similar background for me: very taken with T&F in 70s but the mendacious governing bodies and the doping biz lost me too. Plus, as you said, it was just hard to keep up with it.

North County San Diego has a lot of high quality high school T&F that gets pretty good coverage and I have friends whose kids compete so I started following it again a few years ago.

Current Stanford freshman middle distance runner Alli Billmeyer had a nice career just up the road from me, and in following her I became aware of another current freshman, New Yorker Aisling Cuffe, who was the top ranked HS girl in the 1600 and 3200 last year. So, starting to see kind of a nice pattern here - national recruiting working once again for the Farm.

Plus, internet access to meet results / videos continues to improve yearly, so the sport is becoming easier to follow from afar.

For me, T&F is somewhere between baseball and horse racing on the 'competition per minute' continuum so, as with those sports, a lot of the enjoyment is contingent on a reasonable knowledge of tactics, technique, training & goals, competitors' status etc. Pretty nerd-centric and lots of time between races / events to ruminate and speculate with other spectators between the bursts of activity, which can be breathtaking.

Will be happy to contribute when I can, but not sure I have lead dog capabilities.