Please Pass Along! Save Track & Field

“On September 21st, 2012, University of Richmond Athletic Director Jim Miller informed the members of the University of Richmond Track and Field program that the University would be cutting the mens indoor and outdoor Track and Field teams. These cuts were made in order that the University could add a Men’s Lacrosse team. The Richmond Cross Country/Track program has been the epitome of what the NCAA promotes as Student-Athletes. We have succeeded both academically and athletically. The following are just some of the accomplishments by the Richmond Cross Country/Track and Field program over the past few years.

Spring 2011- Highest Team GPA all DI Outdoor Track and Field Teams

10 consecutive years on USTFCCCA All Academic Team for Cross Country, Indoor Track and Outdoor Track

2010- Qualified for NCAA XC Championships

2010-Top 25 finish in the NCAA

2010- Atlantic10 Cross Country Champions

Please sign this petition and vocalize your concern to the University community at large, to raise awareness and hopefully reverse this decision. Thank you for your support.

So I created a petition to Edward Ayers, President- University of Richmond and Jim Miller, Athletic Director, which says:

Please sign this petition in support of the University of Richmond XC/Track and Field program. Your support represents a commitment to what NCAA athletics are meant to be about- success in the classroom and in athletic competition.

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/save-richmond-track?source=s.fwd&r_by=5694246

Thanks!”

Please sign and pass this along to all of your runner friends!

Ok, I didn’t turn on NBC tonight until 9pm… Did I miss the 10,000 meter final or did they not even show it?

I’m really annoyed because that’s all I really wanted to see. 

I know it’s tape-delayed but for NBC to cut to a commercial in the middle of the women’s 800m because the race “will take longer than eight minutes” is simply deplorable.

bigeisamazing:

but the 800 only last about 2 1/2 minutes

A) Swimming. 800 meters in SWIMMING.

B) The Olympic women running the 800 meter are insulted you think it takes them a whole 2 1/2 minutes.

C) But yes, NBC sucks.

New Balance Indoor Grand Prix

Holy crap. Why am I just finding out now that Jenny Simpson, Sara Hall, Anna Pierce, Maggie Vessey, Shannon Rowbury, Mo Farah, and Galen Rupp will all be in Boston tomorrow competing at Reggie? Argh. Tickets are all sold out. Anyone want to casually run around Reggie with me from roughly 6pm-8pm just on the off chance one of them chooses to warm up outside? That’s not weird, right?

Sh*t Runners Say

I’ll start us off:

• “Just going for an easy 7”
• “I can’t, I have a long run planned”
• “I love Kara Goucher”
• “I feel naked without my watch”
• “I LOVE hills”
• “I HATE hills”
• “It’s a really fast course”
• “I shouldn’t have eaten those cheezits”

Alright, please chime in. What else do runners say?