New Year's Eve Fun

[gh]

I bet I'm not alone in this: haven't you always wanted to get a couple of "real" officials together and go out to a track at the stroke of midnight and in the space of a few minutes, throw every implement there is, do all the jumps and run a few laps taking splits at all distances, and then claiming the world lead in all the events?

[michael lewis]

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Would you publish them too?

[tafnut]

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I have done something similarly silly: On Jan 1, go to the track and run/jump/throw as many events as I can to establish SB's. Then I look forward to breaking them all throughout the year. Works every time, except once when I HJ'ed too high and never beat it all year.

[Guest]

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>I bet I'm not alone in this: haven't you always wanted to get a couple of
>"real" officials together and go out to a track at the stroke of midnight and
>in the space of a few minutes, throw every implement there is, do all the jumps
>and run a few laps taking splits at all distances, and then claiming the world
>lead in all the events?

Not really Gary...considering the amount usually imbibed by then I think Javelin and Hammer throwing could be a bit dangerous! Any other Brits in LA? The Kings Head at 4pm (midnight at home)is quite the scene...

[Guest]

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Never have thought of that but I do get a long run in early on Jan 1st so that I can be leading my club's yearly distance board even if only for the day.

[Guest]

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If I start a race just before midnight and finish it just after, to which year's list does it get added?

[Guest]

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It's sad but me and a bunch of people I ran HS track with are actually kind of doing this. At midnight we'll be at the track celebrating, shooting off fireworks, and running a naked mile. Ya we're a bunch of track bums too.

[Pego]

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All of you Californians and Floridians, come to central Wisconsin on the New Year to try it! Brrrrr! Even though some idiots (my son and daughter-in-law including) go to the shore of Lake Michigan and jump in.

[Guest]

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I know there are now several races from one year to the next now. I remember running a 5 mile race that started at 15 minutes to twelve PM in Toronto in 1961. The race was put on by The Gladstone Athletic Club which was made up mainly of a group of transplanted Commonwealth runners who had a club like those in England. They had a club house and a track in those days. Gladstone was the first club Bill Crothers joined.

[michael lewis]

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"If I start a race just before midnight and finish it just after, to which year's list does it get added?"

It must be the list made from the paper made from the tree which fell in a forest this year when nobody was present.

[Guest]

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Dosen't anyone watch bowl games anymore?

[gh]

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OK, the only WL I'll try to claim is beer, wine, champagne, scotch, pernod and riakka (sp) in the first half hour of the new year. No mileage from this puppy!

[Guest]

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Me and my friend Gabe were probably briefly the 2004 World mile leaders with a blazing 5:17.

[Pego]

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<beer, wine, champagne, scotch, pernod and riakka (sp) in the first half hour of the new year>

All of this in 1/2 hour? My undying admiration, Garry. I think that your last one is rakia, the Balkan version of plum brandy.

[gh]

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Rakia, that was it. Croatian grappa