As a perk for continuing your post collegiate competitive career Jim West has agreed to coordinate entries for the track meets listed below. Please keep in mind that this is a perk only available to current Olympic Develop and open club members. That said, to have Jim enter you in the listed meets you must have paid your Asics Aggie club dues for 2008 as well as be the owner of a 2008 PA/USATF card being registered as an Asics Aggie (club #111).
If one or both of these have not been done for 2008, please complete them first before asking Jim to enter you into the listed club meets. He will not enter you if you have not paid your dues for 2008 or if you are not current with the PA/USATF for 2008 being registered as an Asics Aggie. If you need to do either, please visit the following links.
Asics Aggie Dues:
http://www.aggiesrunning.com/Membership/tabid/45/Default.aspx
PA/USATF Dues:
http://www.pausatf.org/data/membership.html
BIG ASS WARNING: If you have Jim enter you into a meet and you fail to race without informing Jim at least 48 hours beforehand that you need to scratch, Jim will not enter you into any additional meets for the remainder of the season and he will scratch you from the remaining meets of the season.
This is important. It takes an incredible amount of personal time and effort, money (yes, entries into a meet are not free) and in many cases favors to get you into a meet or particular heat. If you do not take the responsibility to show up or get yourself scratched beforehand, we will see this as a lack of commitment on your part. We take this very seriously so please do not make this mistake.
ADDITIONAL BIG ASS REQUIREMENT FOR ALL OD AND POTENTIAL OD ATHLETES AS WELL AS ATHLETES WHO WANT TO BE ENTERED INTO FUTURE MEETS DOWN THE ROAD: For those not at the OD level but are still requesting to be entered into the track meets listed going forward from 2008 and beyond, you must complete the participation portion of the OD requirements. This means racing 2 PA championship events in the Spring (1/1-6/31) and the Fall (7/1-12/31), plus make yourself available for the Bay to Breakers Centipede as well as participate in the PA XC championships. First and foremost we are a CLUB and we have team requirements. The events listed above help foster a strong team ethic and are important to our sponsor Asics. In turn they are important to us. If you want to take advantage of the perk of entry into these selected track meets, you will need to fulfill your part of the team commitment requirement.
The meets schedule for 2008:
3/29: Cal Poly Invite (2/29 deadline)
4/4-4/5: Stanford Invite (3/4 deadline)
4/17-4/20: Mt Sac Relays (3/17 deadline)
5/4: Payton Jordan Cardinal (4/4 deadline)
5/10: Oxy Invitational – Occidental College (4/10 deadline)
5/25: PA Champs – College of San Mateo (4/25 deadline)
6/7: Jim Bush So Cal Champs – Occidental College (5/7 deadline)
6/27-7/6: US Olympic Trials – Eugene OR (5/27 deadline)
Participation events: Need to run 2 listed event this spring and fall 2008 season, plus be available to run the Bay to Breakers centipede as well as the PA/USATF XC champs for the Asics Aggies to have access to meet entries in 2009.
Spring Participation Schedule
3/1: John Frank 10 mile - Redding
3/16: Emerald Nuts 12k – SF
4/20: New Balance 5k – SF
4/27: Big Sur 5k
5/18: Bay to Breakers (MANDATORY PARTICIPATION)
5/26: Marin 10k
6/21: Shriners 8k – Sacramento
Spring Participation Schedule (PA XC races apply here. Races posted when schedule made available)
9/21: Banana Chase 5k – SF
10/05: Rock and Roll Half Marathon – San Jose
10/19: Humboldt Redwoods Half Marathon – Weott
11/09: Clarksburg 30k – Sacramento
11/27: Seagate 5k – San Jose
12/7: Cal Int’l Marathon - Sacramento
The drill. Please contact Jim at least 4 weeks prior to each event AT THE LATEST to gain entry into the meet of your choice. Please let him know the following:
1) The meet you would like to run.
2) The events that you'd like to run in.
3) Entry times; obviously, for the early meets, we're going to have to come up with reasonable entry times based on factors like last season's PR's, current fitness, etc.
Speaking of entry times, we know, and are sometimes friends with the meet directors of these meets, and so we need to keep our times honest. (This policy generally goes out the door with Mt. Sac.) These friendships often create special privileges when it comes to entries; however, Joe and Kevin and I are not about to abuse our friendships and the club's reputation by throwing down unrealistic times. I think you get the point....
Finally, Jim will work as hard as he can to get you into a meet and he would like to think of himself as reasonable, accessible, etc.; in fact, you can always call him at home if you prefer live conversation. However, he is not paid by the club to do this job and he is not anyone's agent. In other words, if you're real particular about the heats you're in and you want to wheel and deal with the meet directors you have my blessing, but don't expect Jim to participate.
He’s doing you a favor, please respect this and be appreciative.
Good luck this season, and please contact Jim with any questions.
Jim’s contact info:
Jim West
805-528-1504
West3154@sbcglobal.net
P.S. Periodically, he will contact you by email and request entry information and provide updates on the status of your entries.