Jesse Squire
34.7K posts
Jesse Squire
@tracksuperfan
Surly teenager wrangler, lapsed track writer, very average middle aged runner
Lakes Я Great
Joined March 2009
- Is there a less useful job in track than bell ringer for the 800?
- When I’m a billionaire I’m going to hire 80 people to work hurdle crew at track meets. One hurdle per person.
- Me: you can’t have four seasons all in one track meet Oregon: hold my kombucha
- Track & field: we will put millions and millions of dollars into upgrading shoe, track, and other technology Also track & field: these bibs
- The most difficult event in track and field is settling the argument about the most difficult event in track and field.
- Don’t want to beat a dead horse here but From 1996 to present the USA has more Olympic gold in the men’s 1500 than the men’s 4x100
- Olympic track & field schedules in graphic form for tonight and tomorrow morning indexed to Eastern and Pacific times. If anyone wants to retweet with TV schedules, be my guest.
- Track isn’t popular and other lies (this is during D2 prelims—wait until this place really fills up tomorrow) It’s just that we emphasize all the wrong things at every level past high school
- In 1979 Grete Waitz ran 34 races (totaling 129 miles) ranging from 800m to the marathon and won 31 of them. I’m worried some of today’s runners might get injured just thinking about that.
- Man in hat runs even pace, others don’t.describe your favorite track race as boring as possible
- Beginning to think drones are an essential part of covering XCThis Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- This is Buzz Aldrin vaulting for the US Military Academy circa 1951.
- So I have this dream of opening a T&F/running sports bar, with the profits used to build a track immediately adjacent. Can’t fail, I’m sure it will work. (yes, I’m a few pints in already)
