{"id":8273,"date":"2014-01-25T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/indoor-track-visits-cornell-for-upstate-challenge-5\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T13:46:53","slug":"indoor-track-visits-cornell-for-upstate-challenge-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/indoor-track-visits-cornell-for-upstate-challenge-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor Track Visits Cornell For Upstate Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indoor Track Visits Cornell For Upstate Challenge<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Entries<\/a> \u2502 Meet Information<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ALBANY, N.Y. –<\/strong> A week after hosting their only home meet of the year, the University at Albany men\u2019s and women\u2019s indoor track teams will head west to Cornell University on Saturday to compete in the Upstate Challenge. \u00a0UAlbany will compete against seven teams entirely from New York, including Cornell, Syracuse, and Binghamton.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the second meet for the group that didn\u2019t return early from the winter break,\u201d said assistant coach Matt Jones<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cSome of the other athletes, like Kathryn Fanning<\/a>, Silvia Del Fava<\/a>, and John DeLallo<\/a>, will be resting this week and instead undergo a two-week training block before their next competition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The two-week training blocks were a staple of the UAlbany cross county teams during the fall, primarily because the schedule was set up in such a way that saw two weeks between races.\u00a0 With track meets taking place almost every week, the opportunity for the training blocks isn\u2019t as prevalent.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll use the two-week blocks where they fit in,\u201d said Jones.\u00a0 \u201cMaybe that will mean not running some athletes at a meet, or maybe there will be a time we have a week off, like between conference championships and IC4A\u2019s\/ECAC\u2019s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The track at Cornell\u2019s Barton Hall is the first flat track the UAlbany program has run on this year.\u00a0 The facilities at both Penn State and the Armory featured banked tracks, which are more conducive to better performances.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to Cornell this year because there are now conversions in place to measure times run on banked tracks compared to flat tracks, which will come into play for hitting qualifying standards,\u201d said Jones. \u201cIn the 1,000, for example, the IC4A qualifying mark is 2:28.50 on a banked track.\u00a0 But on a flat track, it\u2019s only 2:30.6.\u00a0 That may be an easier time to hit.\u00a0 Plus, we can now safely run our athletes on a flat track without worrying about them having a great performance but still falling short of the qualifying standard, because the conversion will take care of that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The UAlbany athletes\u2019 primary goal is to continue to hit qualifying marks for the conference championships, IC4A\u2019s and ECAC\u2019s, and potentially nationals.\u00a0 The conference meet requires an athlete hit a qualifying mark to be able to compete, as do the other championship meets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSome of our men and women have hit standards for conference already,\u201d said Coach Jones, \u201cso for them, we\u2019re looking to hit conference standards in secondary events, so that if something happens, or if we need them to double up at championships, we\u2019ll have options.\u00a0 And in the meantime, we\u2019ll use those secondary events to work on fitness.\u00a0 That can mean either turnover if they\u2019re dropping down in distance from their primary event, or endurance if they\u2019re moving up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe fitness is important because at conference championships and beyond the athletes will have to run multiple rounds of their event,\u201d Jones added. \u00a0\u201cWe need to train them to be able to handle that when the time comes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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