Jesse Squire
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Is there a less useful job in track than bell ringer for the 800?
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When I’m a billionaire I’m going to hire 80 people to work hurdle crew at track meets. One hurdle per person.
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Me: you can’t have four seasons all in one track meet
Oregon: hold my kombucha
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Track & field: we will put millions and millions of dollars into upgrading shoe, track, and other technology
Also track & field: these bibs
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The most difficult event in track and field is settling the argument about the most difficult event in track and field.
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Don’t want to beat a dead horse here
but
From 1996 to present the USA has more Olympic gold in the men’s 1500 than the men’s 4x100
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Olympic track & field schedules in graphic form for tonight and tomorrow morning indexed to Eastern and Pacific times.
If anyone wants to retweet with TV schedules, be my guest.
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Track isn’t popular and other lies
(this is during D2 prelims—wait until this place really fills up tomorrow)
It’s just that we emphasize all the wrong things at every level past high school
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In 1979 Grete Waitz ran 34 races (totaling 129 miles) ranging from 800m to the marathon and won 31 of them.
I’m worried some of today’s runners might get injured just thinking about that.
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Man in hat runs even pace, others don’t.
describe your favorite track race as boring as possible
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Beginning to think drones are an essential part of covering XC
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This is Buzz Aldrin vaulting for the US Military Academy circa 1951.
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So I have this dream of opening a T&F/running sports bar, with the profits used to build a track immediately adjacent. Can’t fail, I’m sure it will work.
(yes, I’m a few pints in already)
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The 4x400 remains undefeated as the best race on the planet
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Americans: we need proper facilities
Kenyans:
Kenyan Olympic steeplechaser Abraham Kibiwott getting in some barrier practice in Mosoriot
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We’re approaching real cross country conditions here in NW Ohio.
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Jesse Owens was born on this date in 1913. His Ohio State long jump school record lasted past his 99th birthday.
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Sigh...women’s hammer is a showdown between world
#1
and world
#2
who broke American records a week apart. Doesn’t even get a mention.
.
@GoSydGo
,
@gwenjorgensen
,
@trackjenny
and
@jennsuhr
are among the headline stories at the
@USATF
Outdoor Championships this week. Events to watch:
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What’s your favorite track & field/running movie? I’ll start.
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If we get to this point in the US I would support a 2km limit b/c nobody but runners knows how far that is and it would be unenforceable
France bans running further than 2K from home - Canadian Running Magazine
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About to be a senior, classes hadn’t started yet. He only entered the 800 at the trials as a workout, then tied the WR. Oh, but you know, we shouldn’t over-race.
49 years ago today: Dave Wottle, a Bowling Green senior, arguably runs the greatest race of all time and wins the 800m at the 1972 Olympics.
Gotta be the first guy to win gold after the announcer wonders during the race if he’s “seriously injured.”
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50 years ago today, Dave Wottle finished 12th at the NCAA XC championships. In the following 8 months he reduced his 800m PR from 1:47.2 to a then-WR 1:44.3.
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I think it was the year Jama Aden was arrested.
.
@GenzebeD
has won at least one
#DiamondLeague
1,500m every season since 2012 except one. Can you tell us which one without looking?
#RabatDL
🇲🇦
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A 41-year-old American with a full-time job is in 6th
A 41-year-old Canadian with a full-time job is in 10th
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Who was your favorite track (or field) star when you were 16? I’ll start:
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Someone I coached 24 years ago is running Boston tomorrow. He’s faster at age 42 than he was at 18. He pounds out 10 mile runs after full days of working construction. I like to think I helped him love running enough to do that.
I didn’t, but I like to think it.
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Frank Shorter won a 3-mile/6-mile double at the 1971
@DrakeRelays
. His habit of near constant racing didn’t keep him from winning Olympic marathon gold and silver. And people outside of running actually knew who he was.
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We need to amend the NCAA XC tiebreaker rules to a 7th runner kegstand.
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29 athletes across all sports are now part of this HOF “inner ring”.
But not Dave Wottle. Isn’t being a 4x NCAA champion (who still holds a championship record), an Olympic champion, and world record holder enough?
BGSU Athletics To Induct Ten Football Players Into Cast Of Honor
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49 years ago today, Steve Prefontaine tied the collegiate 2 mile record with the most insane negative split you’ve ever heard of.
On This Date in College T&F history for
@CitiusMag
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While much of the Midwest is experiencing a heat wave, temperatures for Saturday’s
@GrandmasMara
in Duluth MN will be in the 50s with a 10mph tailwind and a beeeeeg air conditioner along the left side of the course.
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Pat Porter leads Todd Williams and Bob Kennedy at the 1992 USA XC championships. Kennedy won to complete the NCAA/USA double in the space of 5 days. They were his 25th and 26th races of the year.
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D’Amato about jumping in the air when she saw Hall and Bates and then falling into their arms pretty much sums up what we love about running.
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Upon reflection, a coach who nearly killed himself just to win a race might not be someone who keeps an athlete’s health in mind.
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Years Kenya entered an Olympic steeplechase and didn’t win:
1964: Benjamin Kogo, eliminated in heats
2021 just now
That’s the list.
11/11 golds in between
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At the moment I think most of us agree with Kozakiewicz’s attitude towards the Russians.
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Through the mid-90s the US XC championships were held the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The last to win the NCAA/USA double within a week was
@zoomkennedy
in ‘91, when he edged Todd Williams by less than a second.
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If you say that Houlihan finished out of the medals, I say just wait.
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College teammate to me: “how much faster would we have been if we hadn’t drank so much?”
Me: “eh, 4th in the MAC instead of 6th”
Him: “glad we lived our best lives”
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What was the most fun track meet you’ve ever been to? I’ll start:
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The rare T&F billboard (I’ve seen two for XC).
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According to what I see on Twitter:
Mo Farah
Mo problems
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In 1962 the first day of the USA vs USSR dual meet drew more fans than either the NFL Championship game or game 7 of the World Series. The second day drew even more.
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ESPN NCAA wrestling coverage: split screens, every important match covered
ESPN NCAA T&F coverage: mention a thrilling field event conclusion b/c it interrupted a semifinal.
Why isn’t EVERYONE in this sport DEMANDING that our athletes get the RESPECT they deserve?
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Tangentially related: it’s usually assumed the best college coaches are those who win the most. But if I find a coach whose athletes improve consistently and continue to improve after graduating and moving on, that’s a great coach.
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Oregon State gets 4th in the DMR. That’s the first points for the Beavers at an indoor or outdoor championships in 36 years. The efforts to revive this program are paying off.
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The top 15 finishers at today’s Mel Brodt Invitational win Dave Wottle bobbleheads, presented by Dave Wottle.
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Takeaways from today’s Boston Marathon...
1) If you only train/race in good weather then you are underprepared
2) Even the world’s best marathoners are sometimes the windshield, sometimes the bug
3) For some athletes there is no such thing as overracing
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USA has won medals in five distance races at these Worlds. 16 years ago our distance program was horrid. I'm still amazed.
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Just saw a kid on my team out putting in miles.
The temperature is 4F, wind chill is -12.
Just in case you thought today’s kids aren’t tough.
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4x400 invented in 1895, bread slicing machine in 1912. Sliced bread is the greatest thing since the 4x400.
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He’s moving up to the 10,000!
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I love everything about living in a climate with 4 distinct seasons, except
a) marathon training in the winter
b) marathon training in the summer
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Your Olympic track and field schedules for tonight and tomorrow morning in graphic form.
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So I thought I was drunk.
But we really did have a loose camel running down the street.
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Not a whole lotta women who have run both the 4x100 and 4x400 for the USA in a single championship. Thinking maybe Abby Steiner should be one.
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You know you’re from the Midwest when you think long sleeves will be too warm for a 5k in 36F (2C) weather.
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#MadeUpMarathonFacts
By Oregon law, runners may not serve themselves at aid stations, an attendant must pour the fluid into their mouths
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Nov 27, 1971: Frank Shorter wins AAU XC championship
Dec 5, 1971: Shorter wins Fukuoka Marathon
His 18th and 19th races that year
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Tonight’s
@SirWalterMiler
is the only time 13 men have run sub-4:00 in a single race anywhere in the USA save Eugene.
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My brother, who is def. *not* a Twitter dude, just sent me a text about how awful
@espn
’s
@nycmarathon
coverage was.
“If you don’t want to show runners and don’t want to talk about running then leave the marathon for a network that does it right.”
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I’d like to thank
@emmajcoburn
for running to win that race despite the fact that she already had a spot on the Worlds team.
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Regarding Cain’s story, I don’t think it’s an accident that it wasn’t told until Salazar’s power over others was kneecapped.
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BTW, I would pay a lot of money to see a World Relays DMR featuring a team of Ingebrigtsen, Warholm, Ingebrigtsen, and Ingebrigtsen.
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@jgault13
The women who have ever run under 3:54.00...
A woman whose coach was arrested in a doping raid
Two Eastern Bloc athletes from the no testing era
A bunch of Chinese women who did it with no int’l observers and never came close again
And Hassan, coached by AlSal
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Exactly 27 years later OJ set another record, for slowest car chase.
ON THIS DATE IN USC TRACK & FIELD HISTORY...June 17, 1967: McCullouch, Kuller, Simpson & Miller won the NCAA title in the 4x110-yard relay with a time of 38.6. Their time set the USC, collegiate, meet and world records.
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Among the most amazing feats professional athletes do is consistently pin a bib centered and level. Been trying since 1983, haven’t done it yet.
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Incidental contact: NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Practically show up with a needle in your arm: eh, what can we do?
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Weird stat of the day:
Men who have finished top 15 at NCAA XC and whose 800m PR is under 1:46
1:43.84 Alan Webb
1:44.3 Dave Wottle
1:44.62 Matthew Centrowitz
1:44.98 Steve Holman
1:45.70 Graham Hood
Who am I missing?
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Most US sub-4:00 in a single race:
13, 2018
@SirWalterMiler
10, 1994
@nikepreclassic
10, 2013 Falmouth mile
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Schedule for today at the Olympic Trials
Besides TV coverage, all field events have stand alone live feeds
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Connor McMillan ran 2:12:07 today, will be 24 at the Trials.
Abdi Abdirahman ran 2:11:34, will be 43.
The only man 40+ at Trials to make the team is
@runmeb
, 2016.
The only U25 to do it are Frank Shorter (72) and Kenny Moore (68).
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Think about this: two sprint medal sweeps with six different athletes
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Cheptegei now just the 11th man to hold both the 5000 and 10,000 world records.
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You know, I think we’ve forgotten the true meaning of the beer mile. It’s about people getting together in the dead of night to do something that could get them arrested.
Not a shabby double for
@CoreyBellemore
, who ran 3:45.03 in the 1500m about 30 minutes ago and coming back to set a new world record for the non-alcoholic beer mile in 4:53.08 🍻
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Cool stat: “hospital admission data showed that for every sudden cardiac death during a marathon, two car-crash deaths were avoided thanks to street closures during the race.”
New analysis of all medical encounters during six years of UK
@parkrun
events, with a total of 29 million (!) 5K finishes. Very low rate of serious events, and very high (65% vs normal 10% for out-of-hospital events) survival rate for cardiac arrest:
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I’m sure someone has already pointed this out, but neither US women’s throwing gold medalists (Chase Ealey, Brooke Andersen) ever won an NCAA title. It’s a long, long haul to the top in the throws.
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On this date in 1983,
@BYUTFXC
’s Ed Eyestone took 4th at the US XC Championships, just 5 days after finishing 9th at the NCAAs. He then took 6th at the IAAF Worlds in the middle of a full college ID/OD track season.
Oh, he ran 2:16:21 at the Houston Marathon too.
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Stat of the day
28 foot jumps by Carl Lewis over 13 years: 71 (21 were wind-aided)
28 foot jumps by the entire world in the 21 years since he retired: 67
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I’ve heard a lot of criticism that US stars won’t be at the USATF Championships. But only 5 of 42 US leaders won’t be there, three of whom just ended a long collegiate season.
If you’re talking stars of 4-5 years ago, sure. But nearly all of TODAY’s stars will be there.
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The XC course will have received over 3 inches of rain by this afternoon’s league meet. The kids will have mud up to their eyebrows. What could be more fun than that?
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If you can identify all six men in these photos then you’re my kind of person
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Is there anyone out there who exemplified “blue collar runner” better than Jonesy did?
I’ll wait.
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Them: it’s Villanova vs Kansas
Me: a Jim Ryun - Marty Liquori rematch?
Them: wut
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I guess those conversions do work.
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Abby Steiner fits the profile of a sprinter who was going to improve and a lot. She is from a cold-weather state, and split time with soccer through her freshman year of college. In that context, her 11.38/22.71 times in high school were even more remarkable.
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Your Olympic track and field schedules for tonight and tomorrow morning in graphic form.
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Name an American T&F athlete whose biography should be written but hasn’t. I’ll start:
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Look on the bright side, everyone! Coleman screwing up may have cleared the path for Justin Gatlin to be Olympic 100m champion!
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By this date in 1980 we’d already had four major indoor meets, three of them with fan turnout exceeding 7,000.
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