Athletics WA Grand Slam Track League 2025

[heywoodu 16,461]

Also decent races in the hurdle/sprint Slam combo's last night.

[Orangehair43 315]

The hurdle events don’t work for having a flat race.  It’s not mixing people with different skills in the way the other events do. It’s the biggest flaw alongside doing it in a stadium where have the races start with trees behind the runners which doesn’t make it feel epic. 

Edited May 4, 2025 by Orangehair43

[Orangehair43 315]

Once again I find watching hurdlers running flat races quite boring. 

Edited May 5, 2025 by Orangehair43

[heywoodu 16,461]

16 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

Once again I find watching hurdlers running flat races quite boring. 

It's also just utter nonsense. A sprint competition with athletes running a 100 and 200, fine, or a middle-distance with them running 800 and 1500. But a 100 and a 110/100m hurdles is just....weird. And then actually calling it 'short hurdles', when literally half of the combination does not involve hurdles.

[dodge 1,041]

Gail Devers respectably disgagrees

 

[heywoodu 16,461]

32 minutes ago, dodge said:

Gail Devers respectably disgagrees

 

The exception that confirms it by being exactly that: an exception  

 

Honestly, it'd even be fine if they called it sort of an 'allround sprint' or whatever, instead of calling the combination 'short hurdles', suggesting the combination consists of, well, short hurdle races.

[dodge 1,041]

I was joking. It would be a terrible idea

[Grassmarket 4,300]

12 hours ago, heywoodu said:

It's also just utter nonsense. A sprint competition with athletes running a 100 and 200, fine, or a middle-distance with them running 800 and 1500. But a 100 and a 110/100m hurdles is just....weird. And then actually calling it 'short hurdles', when literally half of the combination does not involve hurdles.

Think that the sport has changed over the last 40 years, and is now much more specialised.  Back in ye olden days of the 80s it was absolutely routine for hurdlers to double up at least enough to do a decent 4x100m leg, 200m runners to do a 4x400m, and of course the classic 800m/1500m or 5000m/10000m.  

[Grassmarket 4,300]

Schedule revised for the next meet in Philadelphia; Now just a two day meet with the Distance Double cut to just a single race - Men 5000m & Women 3000m.

[Grassmarket 4,300]

Here's the schedule and runners for Philadelphia this weekend.

 

GRAND SLAM TRACK™ Announces Full Field of Racers & Challengers For Philadelphia Slam, May 31–June 1