NACAC under-23 in Mexico

[Got Lapped by Kevin Byrne]

anybody have a clue where to find results? don't see 'em in any of the usual places

thanks

[tandfman]

The place I usually look first for links to meet results is the T&FN home page. There's a link there now. Just scroll down a bit. The results, however, are apparently being posted one day at a time. All that's there right now is the first day's results.

[Got Lapped by Kevin Byrne]

thx, t&fm ...

http://www.uaemex.mx/Evento/NACAC2008/resultados.html

resultados should be posted here, but still just friday stuff

it's so easy to post results in real time these days, it boggles the mind that meet officials still refuse to do it

[Got Lapped by Kevin Byrne]

today's resultados now posted ... they are *.pdf scans of results sheets

[richxx87]

today's resultados now posted ... they are *.pdf scans of results sheets

good gracious those are massive. I imagine it would next to impossible to download these in most of the countries involved at the meet -- like Guatemala, Haiti etc., etc. -- which don't yet have wide-coverage broadband ISPs.

[richxx87]

LaGerald Betters betters his Personal Best from 44.83 to 44.75

[26mi235]

LaGerald Betters betters his Personal Best from 44.83 to 44.75

But with an altitude of 2680m, this is not worth nearly as much.

[MJR]

I was at the meet as an official. It was very well organized, but anything longer than a 200m race was murder on the athletes. I counted at least 7 athletes carried off because they passed out during or immediately after their races. The competition was very good, just ignore the times. The Aztec dancing during the opening ceremonies was very cool, too.

[26mi235]

I was happy to see that Wisconsin runner and swimmer Gwen Jorgensen won the 5000 -- then I saw that she was the only finisher and maybe the only runner (low 18s, comparable to the winning 37 in the 10,000). Still, she is an interesting case because she joined the track team in the spring last year after being a swimmer for UW (she did run track in HS, and it is her HS coach who pushed her to try).

[MJR]

She was the only starter. It was common to see only 4-6 in the distance events, as many countries decided against sending athletes because of the altitude or the expense during an Oly year.

[tandfman]

It's surprising that Mexico had no entries. It wouldn't have been very expensive for them, and I imagine that some of their distance runners train at altitude.