Hey Grotey Baby,
I've a freshman walker here in Ireland who can run
4:12 mile.
Sean
--- Ryan Grote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Only that another kid from NJ, freshman from
> Parsipanny Hills named Jeremy
> Zagorski, set a Morris County frosh record in the
> 1600 this year of 4:16 and
> change. Bet that is quicker than your boy Zach
> Pollinger did his mile...OK,
> his was indoors, and the 4:16 was for 1600m.
>
> So let me get this straight, if you didn't mention
> the racewalking and are
> getting all defensive about not denigrating it or
> making it less deserving,
> are you saying that its all equal if on foot? If
> that is the case, then
> your boy can go ahead and enter the NJSIAA high
> school meets and be judged
> on the same guidelines, time and place, right? That
> is, since they don't
> have racewalking in high school track in NJ...which
> of course doesn't make
> it less deserving as an event. Maybe your boy
> Pollinger can tangle with
> Zagorski next year...only that Zagorski ran his PR
> in the Meet Of Champions,
> which you have to qualify for...Pollinger would not
> qualify, in fact
> wouldn't even make the sectionals. But oh wait,
> thats different he's
> WALKING.
>
> Oh wait, racewalking is a differnent discipline,
> different event, right? So
> why did you fail to mention it as such?
>
> You can't just go out and say some that John Godina
> threw 70 feet and some
> high school kid threw 120, lots of them actually,
> ones that didn't even make
> it to the state meet....without talking about what
> they throw. 70 feet in
> shot...pretty darned good. 120 feet in the
> discus...not all that
> exceptional.
>
> So maybe your boy did set a record, but make it
> clear what the record was.
> Unless you feel embarassed by it.
> Grote
> adiRP/MMRD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael J. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ryan Grote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: T&F Listserve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: t-and-f: re: NJ Superstars
>
>
> > Ryan,
> >
> > There was no neglect at all, and no reason to
> denigrate these
> > performances by somehow qualifying them as less
> deserving because of the
> > event that they choose to undertake.
> >
> > Next . . .
> >
> > MJR
> >
> >
>
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