In anticipation of today's raw, wet, rainy and windy afternoon down at Ramapo in New Jersey for the first day of the Metropolitan Championships, we once again revisit Coach Terry Horton's very unscientific theory on recurring weather patterns from year to year. Coach Horton has seen his share of outdoor track weather and outdoor track seasons -- as an athlete and coach, that stretches back nearly half a century (wow!). He has noted that, year to year, certain weekends and certain meets tend to have lousy weather.
As I was pre-whining (is that possible?) about today's Mets -- and hey, we will only be out there for two events, but they happen to be two LONG events in the men's 3,000 steeplechase and the men's 10,000 -- I mentioned yesterday how there is nothing worse than cold rain in terms of weather conditions for our sport. To which Terry reminded me of the 2011 Mets (Day 2) at Rutgers, which featured epically raw and wet and windy weather. I do not remember this, as I was somewhere over Indiana or Iowa or Colorado, flying home with my guacamole-tossing Mt. SAC competitors (that guacamole incident was from 2012, but it still sounds good ...)
Anyway, on Day 2 of Mets that year, the weather was so bad ... that it took several DAYS to sort out the official results. Day 1 was pretty nice, and our distance athletes had some strong performances that year. Day 2? Not so much nice to report at all from that day.
So yeah. Here it is, Mets in April. Cold and rainy weather. Coach Horton is a genius, right? Sure, why not. Why let the facts get in the way of a good story. But, for the record, that lousy day two years ago was Saturday, April 16. Same weekend, sort of, off by a few days ... whatever. Cold and rainy weather, two or three days after summer-like warmth? Sounds like April in the Northeast to me!
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