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Death of Athletics, the benefits?

ecoli · 2014-07-10 14:26:37

Saw this on letsrun; http://www.paulcoover.com/2014/07/track-is-dead-and-thats-good-thing.html?spref=fb&m=1 Normally don't read too much into these types of articles as I have always been part of the brigade trying to promote the sport to the masses but I think there are some excellent points made here. There has been no…

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#92 16-07-2014 4:31pm
RayCun

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the point is, there's a lot of people who are nominally in the audience for this event, but really aren't. They're not out there thinking, "ooh, the Nationals, must go to that - oh, darn it, I've got the Fingal 10k that weekend". The nationals just aren't on their radar. If the Fingal 10k was on the week before or after next year (did it clash last year?) it would make no difference to the attendance n Santry.
I don't think there is any doubt that the AAI supports national competition, so symbolic gestures of support are worthless. And banning AAI-supported races on the same weekends as national competitions is damaging, because it's giving the advantage to carpetbaggers and making things harder for clubs.

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