In a message dated 3/8/99 3:21:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, Gemery@aol.com
writes:
<< While I sympathize with your feelings, you should realize that many
places in the country don't have space to design a course in any
other fashion. For us in Oregon, it's at least a 6 hour round-trip to
a site that allows non-looping 60-second courses... would you
choose to never run an event, always travel 6 hours round trip, or
run what's local? >>
Hard questions...
I probably just would not run. Not very often, anyway. 20 years ago I ran
in anything I could find. Age probably has something to do with my current
choosiness. I just ain't as hot to trot as I once was. But give me a course
that looks good to me and I will still give it a go. As I have said, it is
just a matter of personal preference. It isn't evil or bad to set up a course
at which the old racer man turns up his nose. They just don't usually get the
old boy's bucks if they do that.
There are ways to make courses on small lots that are not irritatingly
complex. Multiple laps work for me. Years ago we ran on little shopping center
lots where you had to go 3 laps or so to make a 50 sec. run. I loved it.
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