I saw the clerk do it about 5 years ago at Harry Jerome. I was standing on the starting line for the 10K with a bunch of Japanese dudes. The clerk made them take off all their watches. Boy were they pissed. Maybe it's a Canadian thing.
-Ray -----Original Message----- From: malmo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:21 AM To: 'Ray Cook'; 'Dan Kaplan'; 'Athletics' Subject: RE: t-and-f: Timing yourself in an indoor 5,000M? Never heard of such a rule in my life. Must have something to do with that 1600/3200 thing? malmo -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Cook Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:07 PM To: 'Dan Kaplan'; 'Athletics' Subject: RE: t-and-f: Timing yourself in an indoor 5,000M? I thought not wearing a watch was an NCAA rule which was enforced at the championships? I never wore a watch on the track anyway but I vividly remember the day when the clerk confiscated all the watches right on the starting line at both the NCAA's and at international meets when I competed. Anybody else remember this? -Ray -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Kaplan Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 8:34 PM To: Athletics Subject: Re: t-and-f: Timing yourself in an indoor 5,000M? But as always, there's two sides to every story... I basically didn't know my 800m PR from my Junior year of high school until my Junior year of college due to two separate timing mishaps. The first was during an early season all-comers meet my Senior year of HS. I felt I ran my best race by far, but no one got a time on me (back of the pack in a much faster than expected race). Several people in the stands thought I finished in the ballpark of what would have been a big PR... Frosh year of college, 1st or 2nd meet, another screw up in the form of a 5 second timing discrepancy. Coach had me at about what I felt I ran -- not a PR -- the official results had me 5 seconds faster. Injured most of the track season Sophomore year and didn't do much, then finally ran a time Junior year that was well clear of any of the previous confusion! Rather frustrating in hindsight. I never did take to racing with a watch, though. Dan --- Jim Gerweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love it when some kid who's so inculcated by the nuances of road > racing reaches to hit his watch at the end of a race, and gets beat by another > who ran through the finish and counted on the timers to do their job. ===== http://AbleDesign.com - Web Design & Custom Programming http://Run-Down.com - 10,000 Running Links, Fantasy T&F ------------------------------------------------------------ @ o Dan Kaplan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <|\/ <^- ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) _/ \ \/\ (503)370-9969 phone/fax / / __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
