In a message dated 02-11-10 22:47:45 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Nicole Blood is the one who should have known the course and her coach should have made sure of it. The farce is that the pre-race favorite did not know the course cold. There is no excuse for it at all, but it is so much easier to blame the officials, than to suck it up, learn something and move on. >>
Mike, You hit it right on the nose. I posted a situation yesterday about a NJ race last season where the runner who went off course had just run a race there a month before (the dual meet course ends differently than the championship course). Coach and athlete should have done THEIR jobs. Larry A. Mogan, Sr. Elizabeth Heat TC