RE: t-and-f: Dropped Men's Programs???

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Michael Blank
-- Bloomquist, Bret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blinn Junior College. Just a JC, but arguably the greatest JC track program of all time. They cut it but kept men's tennis because men's tennis had a better quality of student athlete. Read: Rich white kids. Didn't

Re: t-and-f: Ernst Van Aaken and longevity

2002-12-30 Thread Jason Michael Blank
ghill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was listening to Dr. Dean Edell on the radio. He's a nationally syndicated talk guy who gives medical advice on everything under the sun. I can't speak to the quality of his preachings, but he's def. entertaining. At any rate, one day the subject was exercise

Re: t-and-f: Field Event Results

2002-07-23 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Don Schlesinger wrote: My suggestion is as innovative as it is simple to implement, and I'm astounded that no company has seen fit to market such a product up until now. Leave the first two columns alone. Add two extra tabs to the third column, to provide for a single panel that will

Re: t-and-f: Drugs and America's game

2002-05-23 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Kurt Bray wrote: Something certainly has changed in baseball. It used to be a remarkable achievement for anyone to hit 50 home runs in a year. That would happen once every 5 or 10 years. Now every year there are a bunch of guys hitting 50 and the top one or two guys hit 70. I don't follow

Re: t-and-f: Good show by Morroccan B team at XC Worlds

2002-03-26 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Rich Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at those French names. It looks like Morroccan B team to me, though maybe there's an Algian or Tunisian athlete there. ... It somehow renders the concept of nationality irrelevant. This doesn't apply to many nations yet, but things are

Re: t-and-f: Pre-league records

2002-01-10 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Kurt Bray wrote: So the Mountain West conference membership is almost identical to the what the WAC was through much of the 70s and 80s. But the WAC itself still exists with all these other new schools. What would would you make of old WAC records from the 70s? Are they still WAC records,

t-and-f: Re: t-and-f-digest V1 #3863

2001-11-28 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Geoff Pietsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The McAlpine course is a great course except for being too narrow after the long opening straightaway. It's fast because it's on hardpacked dirt (when it's not muddy from rain). It's not as flat as some suggest; it's sure hillier than the golf course

Re: t-and-f: Re: Yegorova - the only enormous improver?

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Michael Blank
P.F.Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't this suspicion due to various governing bodies catching people from time to time? When was the last time anyone really thought about drug use in major sports? It's certainly higher than in track and field but people don't seem to care. Mark

Re: t-and-f: Sez who?

2001-08-06 Thread Jason Michael Blank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this specific case, I tend to agree with Malmo. 99% of the coverage is available real-time this year. The only thing missing is the videotape- and then only in the tiny part of the world called the United States (other than a few border states as has been

Re: t-and-f: Lassiter

2001-07-05 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Dave Cameron wrote: Yeah... I did. But I wonder why. I would have thought that Lassiter's prime concern is getting the A standard - not trying for a win (or high finish) in the race. This shows that the slow pace was easy for him. I would guess that both Lassiter and Downin judged

Re: t-and-f: LASSITER, DOWNIN, SCHWALD / China

2001-07-02 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Ed Dana Parrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, which is it? 3:50.78 for 1500m doesn't sound like an A qualifier to me. Are these two different meets we're talking about? There was an obvious typo on the IAAF site. They described the race as very tactical and slow, on account of the weather

Re: t-and-f: theoretical match-race amongst young gods

2001-06-29 Thread Jason Michael Blank
- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] so let's suppose that Webb and Ritz and met at either GWI or the Stanford Invite (choice of meet is simply the weekend exactly between the showing of peak form for each, Webb in the Pre mile, Ritz in the USATF

Re: t-and-f: Webb maybe top 3 at USATF 1500... but not going toEdmonton

2001-06-20 Thread Jason Michael Blank
One overlooked factor in Ritzenheim's case is that Michigan's rules on high school athletics prevented him from running in more than two (?) invitationals, which meant that he ran only one 5000m on the track this spring. In other words, he missed the qualifier by less than a second in his only

t-and-f: Re: Fast twitch/slow twitch question?

2001-05-08 Thread Jason Michael Blank
-- Ed Parrot wrote: Jon Entine is correct that those who have been telling you that somehow cross country will screw up the muscle fibers of the sprinters are NOT correct. The M.D. who suggested this most likely learned some basics about muscle fibers in medical

Re: t-and-f: Fw: direction of running

2001-04-08 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Phalford wrote: My friends and I have had a long standing discussion on "Why do athletes run around the track in an anti-clockwise direction"? I've never seen them run clockwise (north or south hemisphere) I can't recall the best explanation I've heard, but I'm glad we do run

RE: t-and-f: Distance runners

2001-03-29 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Mcewen, Brian T wrote: Now, in 2001, if you are a non-African you are 20 seconds back in a 5k. That is not a result of the running boom though ... The other sports that require a HUGE amount of practice and training have experienced a similar downturn in the US (swimming, tennis, cycling

Re: t-and-f: Mt. SAC's role?

2001-03-26 Thread Jason Michael Blank
Richard McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this discussion, one thought dawned on me--if Mt SAC is in a unique position, why not make it a Pre-NCAA meet. Cross country has that now and it seems quite successful. Weather will almost certainly be better than just about anywhere else in the US

Re: t-and-f: Hematocrit and EPO

2000-11-30 Thread Jason Michael Blank
"Mcewen, Brian T" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, the natural hematocrit is 42-44 of an average healthy man (slightly lower for women) ... and it DOES raise slightly with altitude training. It DOES NOT raise above 50% without drugs. Not so - at least not for natives of high altitude.

Re: t-and-f: little tidbit on Kenyan training

2000-09-20 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Dan Kaplan wrote: --- Scandinavian researcher Bengt Saltin tested the maximum oxygen uptake of active and less active Kenyan children. Active children from teh age of seven years walked ror ran to school at least 8k per day. The range of habitual activity for

Re: t-and-f: Let's talk track

2000-09-12 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Conway wrote: Here we are now within counting distance of the games and no talk about track .. Drugs, yes .. Betting, yes .. Track, competition, anticipation - no .. So I will try again to spark some interest .. And this time talking distance .. Here are my predictions

RE: t-and-f: Olympic Journalism Ban

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, John Dye wrote: With amateurism no longer an issue, what is the rationale and/or justification? We've heard the rule, but no one has explained the reason. One possible explanation - The rule prevents famous athletes in the Olympic village from being badgered by fellow

Re: t-and-f: Baily at Meeting de Nancy

2000-09-05 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, David Monti wrote: Nancy, FRA (03-Sep). 100m Race A (-1.4) 1. 10.28 Patros, David, Amiens Uc 2. 10.33 Bailey, Donovan, Canada 3. 10.51 Nordin, Rodrigue, Neuilly-plaisance Sports 4. 10.58 Ganda, Thomas, Sierra Leone 5. 10.63 Vallon-hoareau, Alexandre, Us

Re: t-and-f: Re: where are all the world records?

2000-08-29 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Conway wrote: I tend to agree .. What WRs would anyone expect to be broken ?? Most WRs are so far out there as to almost be out of reach .. . . . But I think WRs are going to become more and more of a rarity .. Of course they will. Over the course of the 20th

Re: t-and-f: High-Low

2000-08-29 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, John Lunn wrote: Trackos, Does anyone know if we have any Olympic team members, from the 1500m up, who used the "high-low" model for training. I know the obvious runners who trained at altitude. I'm not aware of any runners who went to low altitude for speed work before

Re: t-and-f: Extracts from Ottey ruling (was IAAF inconsistencies)

2000-08-23 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Kurt Bray wrote: It is exactly these figures that do not make sense. To begin with the arbitration panel report excerpt does not say what Ottey's positive reading was prior to correction. I've read elsewhere that it she had two positive readings, one about 10 and

t-and-f: Re: t-and-f: looks like Zürich will really suck again

2000-08-07 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Conway wrote: Out of curiosity .. Has anyone ever tracked what type of medal predictor the Zurich meet is for Olympic and World Championship competitions ??? Since the Zurich fields tend to be so "lousy", they may give some indication of championships success .. I'm

Re: t-and-f: shoe weight, and Zurich

2000-08-07 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, David Morris Honea wrote: I was just checking out the new XC waffle by Nike and noticed the 7.5-8.0 ounce weight. The old waffle racer was 6.5 ounces. At what point does the weight of a shoe makes a difference? Does body weight have a significant affect on shoe

Re: t-and-f: EPO Testing

2000-08-03 Thread Jason Michael Blank
IOC Approves EPO Tests for Sydney... The panel reviewed a combined blood-urine test for EPO that was developed by Australian and French teams Now a French laboratory says it can differentiate between natural and artificial EPO in urine, while Australian researchers have a blood test

Re: t-and-f: Tanui, Lagat, Kosgei cut from Kenyan Olympic marathonteam

2000-08-01 Thread Jason Michael Blank
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, P.F.Talbot wrote: Given that Kenya has been around as a country for only 40 years, the level of national identity has not quite developed to the level ingrained into Europeans and Americans over hundreds of years. I've always been suspect of just what "Kenya" actually