This weekend is a dream weekend for cross-country and observe geeks. Saturday morning begins with NIKE Cross Nationals, then, USATF Cross Nation Nationals on Runnerspace.com.
Whereas over on Flotrack.com, the season opener at Boston College, the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener, begins at 8:30 AM. Whereas will probably be an all-day affair, with jumps and throws starting at 9 AM and sprints round 9:45, Flotrack has helped BU streamline the schedule in order that the elite occasions will go from 2:55 to 4:25 for 800m to 5k invitations, after which, for the evening of 5,000 meter racing, the ladies go from 4:30 to 7 and males from 7:15 to 9:20.
Ryan Fenton, the GM of Observe & Subject at Flosports wrote RunBlogRun: “We labored with BU this 12 months to reformat the schedule at their three massive occasions. We could have all the quickest sections packaged collectively in a 90 minute to 2 hour window for the BU season opener, the Terrier invite, and the Valentine invite.” Wow, you imply we will in all probability do some vacation purchasing or meals purchasing as a substitute of spending your complete day in entrance of the pc screan? How novel!
Critically, one of many largest points on this sport is that the game tends to imagine that observe followers have all of this leisure time! Au contraire, mon frere!
I all the time have time for Ryan Fenton. Apart from being jealous of his three day to 5 day beard (at 67, I nonetheless can’t do this, so I simply do the beard.), Ryan get it. At Flosports, Ryan and his group have battled the shit storm that hit when FloTrack bid for the Diamond League. That was an ideal enterprise determination, and slowy however absolutely, Flosports is getting observe followers to get it: Diamond League is on US streaming, and Flosports is constructing some severe content material and help of the programming. The Athletes Lounge, I really like, with Trey Hardee, English Gardner and Matt Centrowitz, amongst others.
I believe Ryan Fenton has one thing right here. The BU meets are enjoyable, however VERY LONG! Streamlining the elite racing makes alot of sense. So, we are going to finish with some deep ideas from the brand new commisar of observe and area, Ryan Fenton:
“The aim is to have a window the place followers can watch all the perfect stuff, and never have to attend at totally different hours all through the day to see the highest sections. We’ll nonetheless cowl the whole lot of all of those occasions, however needed to have a greater expertise for the parents that simply wish to see the perfect athletes run.”
Ryan Fenton, with all seriousness, is working to positive tune how FloTrack & FloSports work together with the game viewers and present the game. Time for a few of us give them a shot, in my humble opinion.
Boston College
Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Saturday: Doorways open at 8:30am
FINAL SCHEDULE
Subject Occasions:
11:00am Girls’s Excessive Leap adopted by Males’s Excessive Leap
Girls’s Shot Put adopted by Males’s Shot Put
Girls’s Pole Vault adopted by Males’s Pole Vault
Girls’s Lengthy Leap adopted by Males’s Lengthy Leap
Girls’s Weight Throw (Following males’s shot put) adopted by Males’s WT
Girls’s Triple Leap (Following males’s lengthy soar)
Opening Heights:
Girls’s Pole Vault: 2.75m
Males’s Pole Vault: 3.95m
Girls’s Excessive Leap: 1.38m
Males’s Excessive Leap: 1.73m
Working occasions: will run quick to gradual.
Most popular oval dash lanes 5-6-4-3-2-1
Most popular straight dash lanes 5-4-6-3-7-2-8-1-9
Time schedule will roll as much as 10 minutes forward throughout this portion of the meet
9:45am Girls’s 60H FINAL
9:50am Males’s 60H FINAL
9:55am Males’s 60m Trials
10:00am Girls’s 400m
10:05am Males’s 400m
10:15am Girls’s 600m
10:25am Males’s 600m
10:35am Girls’s 300m
10:45am Males’s 300m
10:57am Girls’s 60m Remaining
11:00am Males’s 60m Remaining
11:05am Girls’s 800m
11:12am Males’s 800m
11:18am Girls’s 200m
11:25am Males’s 200m
11:35am Girls’s 4x400m
11:40am Males’s 4x400m
12:00pm Girls’s Mile
12:20pm Males’s Mile12:55pm Girls’s 3k
1:40pm Males’s 3k
Elite Window won’t transfer forward
2:55pm – Begin of FloTrack Night time in America (elite window)
3:00pm Girls’s 800m Invite
3:06pm Males’s 800m Invite
3:12pm Girls’s Mile Invite
3:20pm Males’s Mile Invite
3:28pm Girls’s 3k Invite
3:41pm Males’s 3k Invite
3:55pm Girls’s 5k Invite
4:06pm Males’s 5k Invite
4:25pm Males’s 600m Invite
Time schedule will roll in the course of the night portion
4:30pm
Girls’s 5k (9 HEATS)
7:15pm
Males’s 5k (9 HEATS)
9:35pm – Meet Concludes
Estimated 5k Warmth Occasions:
W Ht 1: 4:30pm
W Ht 2: 4:47pm
W Ht 3: 5:05pm
W Ht 4: 5:23pm
W Ht 5: 5:41pm
W Ht 6: 5:59pm
W Ht 7: 6:18pm
W Ht 8: 6:37pm
W Ht 9: 6:56pm
M Ht 1: 7:15pm
M Ht 2: 7:29pm
M Ht 3: 7:44pm
M Ht 4: 8:00pm
M Ht 5: 8:15pm
M Ht 6: 8:31pm
M Ht 7: 8:47pm
M Ht 8: 9:03pm
M Ht 9: 9:20pm
Right here’s a few tales on Ryan Fenton, the Dude of Observe & Subject at FloTrack:
RunBlogRun presents Socialing The Distance that includes Ryan Fenton, GM of Observe & Subject at FloTrack, episode 133
Ryan Fenton Solutions 10 Questions on FloSports new cope with Diamond League, Continental Tour Conferences beginning in 2025!
