Rain in Austin

[trackstar]

Dang it. I know the chances of the dual meet between Arkansas and Texas getting a bunch of fans in the stands were never that high, but now rain is forecast all day here. I have a bad feeling that it will be just me in my raincoat in the stands.

Too bad, because the student newspaper and the American-Statesman (see link below) both had nice preview stories.


http://www.statesman.com/sports/longhor ... 74902.html

[El Toro]

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I have a bad feeling that it will be just me in my raincoat in the stands.

Let's hope so! :shock:

[trackstar]

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Um … no. My raincoat is yellow.

[trackstar]

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Dang it, the sun came out but the fans didn't. 55 people in stands, some athletes. Sigh. Maybe there are just too many other things to in Austin on a sunny spring day, but I would have liked to see more promotion of this meet.

As for the competition: Alain Bailey 7.99 in the lj.

Texas 40.09 in 4x1

[trackstar]

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Keiron Stewart (tx) 13.60 (3.4w) in 110h.

[Cooter Brown]

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Dang it. Didn't know this was going on today.

[guru]

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On a positive note, we just set a new WR for the use of the phrase "dang it" in an internet thread :P

[Half Miler]

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That's a pretty soft record.

[trackstar]

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Cooter: Yeah, they didn't promote it well. I'm thinking of sending them a letter on all they did wrong. Seriously, track meets should hire me as a consultant on what fans want.

[gh]

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Dang it, the sun came out but the fans didn't. 55 people in stands, some athletes. Sigh. Maybe there are just too many other things to in Austin on a sunny spring day, but I would have liked to see more promotion of this meet.

As for the competition: Alain Bailey 7.99 in the lj.

Texas 40.09 in 4x1

Is the "55 people" hyperbole to show how sparse attendance was, or is that really about the count?

[trackstar]

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Is the "55 people" hyperbole to show how sparse attendance was, or is that really about the count?

No, that is precisely the number of people I counted by hand. Although I do admit to a bit of an undercount — I forgot to include myself, Jim Dunaway, and the kid from FloTrack in the total.

[gh]

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Welcome to our May '91 cover:

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/archiv ... overs.html