Malmo, or anyone - what was Nick Rose doing running a US only event....a selection race.
How is this different from the Olympic Trials? Confusing to me.
Also, whereabouts in Louisville is that x-c course, and is it regularly used for competition these days?
Thanks.
You can't see the difference between the Olympic Trials and the Winter Cross Nationals?
malmo, that was a very nice pic. Now, would you please give us the proper photo credit?
No I can't. Back then x-c nationals was run in late November (when club nationals is now). This was the World x-c selection trials....no different than the Olympic trials. A debate has been raised previously - would Pat Porter have won 8 national x-c titles if the nationals & the trials race have been combined into a single race.
How say u?
desert rodent wrote:
Malmo, or anyone - what was Nick Rose doing running a US only event....a selection race.
How is this different from the Olympic Trials? Confusing to me.
Also, whereabouts in Louisville is that x-c course, and is it regularly used for competition these days?
Thanks.
Nick graduated from WKU in 1978 (I think). He lived in Louisville with Tony Staynings, Swag Hartel and David Long (again I think...it's been awhile since then).
I believe Nick may have taken US citizenship up until about 1984. I lived nearby and had the pleasure to train with the "Bristol Boys" a few times back then. They loved the hills of Iroquois Park.
The race course was probably there or at Seneca Park.
desert rodent wrote:
No I can't. Back then x-c nationals was run in late November (when club nationals is now). This was the World x-c selection trials....no different than the Olympic trials. A debate has been raised previously - would Pat Porter have won 8 national x-c titles if the nationals & the trials race have been combined into a single race.
How say u?
You're wrong. Nationals did not select the worlds team, those teams were selected at a separate race.
Pat Porter would have still been national champs, just as those who competed in AAU and TAC Track (indoor and outdoor) Nationals were National Champs if they lost to foreign guests.
Thanks for the info.
Getting back to Mark Nenow - was there ever a more FLUID runner than Mark?
I thought the winner of Nationals was selected to the team and then there was a selection race (Jan-Feb) to fill out the rest of the team spots.
...malomo...that's a nice stache you got going on there....(not original I know.....but u got to admit you look as though you're applying for a part in 'boogie nights')
I think that is correct because I remember late 70's ('78,'79?) Virgin was the National Champion and got a bye to the Worlds. I don't know if it changed between then and '81.
Nenow, was like butter. When he would race he reminded me of a big cat stalking prey.
Ghost wrote:
Nenow, was like butter. When he would race he reminded me of a big cat stalking prey.
Mixed metaphors makes your post sound gay.
What a hoax! I watched Nenow as a college kid when he lived in Lexington, so now that I live in Portland and heard he was making a comeback, I thought it would be a great experience to take my son down to the track at Dunaway to watch him run again. Needless to say after 30 minutes of waiting in the rain and dark, he never showed. We were both incredibly dissapointed and a little emabarassed.
What a shame.
It would have to be E.P Tom Sawyer Park. According to this it is:
http://mb.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=378779
They began holding XC races there again a few years ago. It was the site of the NCAA Southeast Regional this year as well as the NAIA Championships in 2003-06.
If "Terror" Haute ever loosens its grip on the NCAA meet I can easily see Louisville hosting it. Larger city, more hotels.
Alan
Grammarian wrote:
Mixed metaphors makes your post sound gay.
1. Written text has no "sound".
2. Using the term "gay" in a pejorative sense is ignorant and insensitive.
While I dont no if this is a hoax or not I do now that a child shouldn't be out at that time of night!! What were you thinking? If this is what the Mark Nenow craze is doing to pepel than I say as has been said above, let it rest! Think of your kids before you think of some hero from yesterday!
If this is really true then it all makes perfect sense. From what I've read of Nenow in interviews, etc. it feels like he still has running demons that need to be exorcised. I mean, he ran such phenomenal times but never made an Olympic team. Stuff like that has got to eat you up at 50.
My son is 19 years old. Nenow ran at Kentucky in the late 70's. As for his comeback-does any one in Portland know when he will take to the track to break some records?
Sorry, I guess I should have assumed that any of Nenows fans would have to be pretty old as well. I don't believe that this guy is really getting after it at 50 let alone shooting for some kind of record. this sounds like one of those things that comes up every so often, like that guy Mark Covert breaking records for consecutvive days ran, etc. anyway, if Nenow wanted to hit the track to break a record where would the sanctioning body be in all of this? I respect Nenow as much as the rest of you (although I think a number of the posters are a little over-zealous n thier excitement), but why don't we all recognize that there is no way this guy is attempting anything more than finding a quicker route to the morning Starbucks on his way into the daily grind.
Could you please post the route, i'm always late for work.