try again. Compared to NYCM, BOSM, PR, MSR, KR, etc. Eugene & Portland is chicken feed.
focus wrote:
good point. europe has few tracks, no h.s., college, jr hi, jr college, etc t&f. the us has t&f everwhere you look. my city here has is typical with a marathon each year and several 5ks and 10ks. the us is about running and training and not like europe where they sit it the stands drink beer and eat schnitzel at track meets. in the us we don't do that unless our heat is over and we don't have any more heats to run. the last thing we want is to be like eugene.
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??? The poster obviously is blowing wind out his/her A$$hole. One finds tracks all over Europe, though they are owned by municipalities and Clubs. And for the post that Eugene is like Europe, with no participation, poppycock. Eugene has one or two road runs nearly every weekend year-round. The town showcases Hayward Field, but there is also the 400 meter warm up track at the University and Lane community College has a beautiful new 8 lane facility. Then there are the 8 lane tracks at the High Schools scattered around the area (South Eugene, North Eugene, Sheldon, Willamett, Churchill, Thurston, Springfield and Marist for starters). The area is littered with tracks that are open to the public and complement the soft surface trails such as Pre's Trail, the Rexius-Adidas Trail, the Ridgeline Trail and the Dorris Park trails.