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Subject: Re: Cross Country 4 km Trial

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J B

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Date Posted: 09:27:18 03/15/01 Thu
In reply to: No Polotics 's message, "Cross Country 4 km Trial" on 07:08:24 03/15/01 Thu

>When is Canada going to get on the ball and select a 4
>km team for the worlds the fairest way they can. I
>understand and agree with sending the best team we can
>in the 4km race. The lack of long distance credentials
>in Canada makes this obvious. The selection of the 4km
>team using the comparison between a 4.01 mile and say
>a 14.00 min 5km is crazy if the 4.01 miler cannot run
>a good 5000m. This has been happening over the last
>number of years and shows me that the selection team
>is not doing the required research to determine the
>best group. I am strongly in favor of a 4km trial
>during at the begining of March. Who cares where we
>run it. If not at this time, it should be held on
>Sunday after the 12000km race. We should send our best
>group to the World Championships not the best indoor
>milers.
I agree completely. Who knows if the four minute miler has even been training for cross the guys that are training are going to represent much better and also cross and indoor require so much different training a 4 means nothing on the course. I don't think that Tergat says "oh I ran 3:45, now I can go win world cross."
This is one of the reasons the Kenyans dominate, they have a group of guys that train specifically for cross, and USUALLY the guys on the cross team don't run many world track championships.

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Re: Cross Country 4 km Trial	reid	09:45:31 03/15/01 Thu
Re: Cross Country 4 km Trial -- pistol, 09:54:28 03/15/01 Thu Re: Cross Country 4 km Trial -- fletch, 14:20:06 03/17/01 Sat Re: Cross Country 4 km Trial -- coach, 18:02:35 03/17/01 Sat