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<\/a>Chris Nickinson, on , said:<\/p>

\nI'm all for rotating the meet around to different locations. Different venues suit different runners and add a level of excitement. I do love the two year rotation. Athletics Canada puts their meets on a 3 year rotation which gives the hosts a lot to work with an improve upon each year.
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\nI don't think the altitude component is that big of a deal. In 2007 both junior races were won by sea level trained high schoolers. Yes, the men's senior race was dominated by altitude trained-based athletes but the women's race only had 3 in the top 10 who lived at altitude. Those that want to run the race will still show up and in 2015, I think we'll see athletes going to altitude camp earlier in if they intend to try to make the US world cross team.
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\nI would not be opposed to rotating it every four years. That way the host gets two off-year races and two on-year (championship year) races. I feel that'd work really well and build enough fresh excitement for the sport. Regardless, I think this is a great move by USATF and I am hopeful it'll be successful for the sport, both in terms of entertaining fans and building up corporate (monetary) support.","date_added":"May 28th 2013, 4:47pm","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":[],"can_delete":false,"item_id":153100,"item_type":"news","pb_image":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-1111.jpg","pb_title":"Scott Bush","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=1111","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/Scott-Bush.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"624"},"792895":{"pb_id":"3026","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"792895","comment_id":"792895","member_id":"3026","comment":"I'm all for rotating the meet around to different locations. Different venues suit different runners and add a level of excitement. I do love the two year rotation. Athletics Canada puts their meets on a 3 year rotation which gives the hosts a lot to work with an improve upon each year.
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\nI don't think the altitude component is that big of a deal. In 2007 both junior races were won by sea level trained high schoolers. Yes, the men's senior race was dominated by altitude trained-based athletes but the women's race only had 3 in the top 10 who lived at altitude. Those that want to run the race will still show up and in 2015, I think we'll see athletes going to altitude camp earlier in if they intend to try to make the US world cross team.","date_added":"May 28th 2013, 4:16pm","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":{"wally_id":"35","email_settings":"7168","email":"chrisnickinson@gmail.com","address":"chrisnickinson","gender":"m","member_id":"3026","member_name":"Chris Nickinson","avatar_location":"av-3026.jpg","avatar_type":"upload","avatar":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-3026.jpg"},"can_delete":false,"item_id":153100,"item_type":"news","pb_image":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-3026.jpg","pb_title":"Chris Nickinson","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=3026","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/chrisnickinson.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"35"}},"last_id":"792895","url":"comments.php?item_type=news&item_id=153100&item_url=eprofile.php?event_id=9"}