What do you think about the meet being held in Houston. Should make for very fast times since helpful factors include sea level and possibly crystal clear skys in the 50's in FEB. Good marathon weather! Humidity should not play a factor like at Baton Rouge.
If you can put up with the stinky smell that Houston has as well as a possible driving rain downpour, then yeh - Houston is a great place!
Houston is a terrible place for a cross race. If texas is the place then austin is the city
Where did they find grass in Houston? Everything I have ever seen was concrete.
I would imagine it is going to be in one of their parks and not a golf course. Any of you guys want to pick a favorite or will you wait till after NC's.
Times will not be fast as I beileve the course will be on the Buffalo Bayou (Across from the American General building) so it will have many sharp turns and short, steep ups and downs. Looks like the course will be a 1-2 mile loop, because there isn't much room there and I know that was the talk earlier. So it should be a good spectator course at least. It it has rained heavily recently, it will be very interesting.
NCAA was held on Allen Parkway in the early '70's. In that race the rain was so bad that one runner was described as looking like a" pogo stick in mud".
Oct & Nov usually have LOTS of rain here in Houston, but Feb is generally better. That's why NC's suk'd that year. Truthfully, you can just as easily see 80's as 50's in Feb, but really cold temps would be a rarity.
Yup, the race is in the same place on Buffalo Bayou. Jon Warren said the course will be a 2K loop (per USATF specs), and yes it will have lots of turns, switchbacks, and short, steep hills. I wouldn't expect fast times in this one.