Only 3 men entered in 1K exhibition at Albuquerque open nationals

Is it the 5,300-foot elevation?  Too many big meets going on (Kamloops, Boston)? Too stiff a qualifying standard? For whatever reason, only three men are signed up for the 1,000-meter masters exhibition race at the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships at the end of this month in Albuquerque. Fortunately, eight women are entered in their masters exhibition: the 1500 (with great names involved). See the entries here. According to the entry info page, the deadline to sign up was February 12. On the informal side, the masters pole vault and masters shot exhibitions are rarin’ to go, as detailed in recent months. Meanwhile, the USATF Status of Entries page for the kids (open), indicates “No entries” for the masters races. That’s lame. They should fix that pronto.  In any case, I’ll bet Mark Cleary (the masters invitational coordinator) could sneak some more men into the 1000 if you contacted him.

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February 18, 2010

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  1. Mark Cleary - February 18, 2010

    Yes, Ken I can certainly add a few Men if they are in 2:10 800 meter shape–that’s a bit off the normal qualifying, but at this point we want to get the field a little fuller-we can have 8 and I would be happy if we could get the field size up to at least 5. Several athletes were contacted Tony Young, Jim Sorenson and several of the guys that went to Hartshorne-the timing is bad for those going to Kamloops and the others are finding it hard to travel in this economy-so this year will be a struggle with the Invitational program.The Outdoor event is the 100m for both Men & Women and that’s at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa so please get the word out–Thanks–Mark

  2. Keith McQuitter - February 18, 2010

    its sad that many of the best USA masters are not going to kamloops not because of injury but because of money usatf should try in some way help masters runners with some of the fee,s it takes to get to big meets like WMA im very up set that I cant go because of lack of funds I spoke to lee X another very good M50 hurdler can not be there the coast is very high,airfair,hotel,food,travel,national team pays nothing,maybe food,and travel,but they have sponsers to pay for them,we all have family jobs,M60 AND M70 runners are retired its a shame we cant put ower best foot forward in world challenge meets,I my self was looking to run 8.50 or better,(8.47)is WR owell good luck M50 hurdlers.

  3. Ken Stone - February 18, 2010

    100-meter exhibitions at Des Moines nationals!

    Cool!

    Get Darrell Green!

    (The meet is June 23-27, BTW.)

  4. tony plaster - February 18, 2010

    Contact David Salazar… he lives out there and I bet would be a fine addition.

  5. Fidel - February 18, 2010

    What are the standards for the 100m at the Des Moines meet? The Hayward Classic in Eugene is on the same weekend…btw…

  6. James Brown - February 18, 2010

    I know for a fact that this very subject was discuss with Mark months ago, that he might want to ask the national office to put the exhibition events on Saturday so that you would not have athletes having to choose between the exhibition events and going to worlds. Not even taking into account the expense of doing both.

  7. Mark Cleary - February 26, 2010

    If you look the events are on Saturday– that did not help the turn out for the mens race–it’s the money for going to both and the extened time away from family that are the biggest problem.None can dispute that the current state ofthe economy is impacting everything and Masters Track & Field competitions are no exception.

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