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Post by coacha on Oct 26, 2009 16:50:31 GMT -5
I was looking at the Kingston area results the other day (they seem to be gone now) and I was shocked at the lack of runners. Can someone from the Kingston area shed some light on this. Were those normal entry numbers? I think one race only had 11 entries. I went to high school and University in the area and I seem to remember running to be more popular. I also noticed that Frontenac had virtually no representation...I am suprised, has Dave Grant retired?
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Post by XCrunner on Oct 26, 2009 17:03:52 GMT -5
I was looking at the Kingston area results the other day (they seem to be gone now) and I was shocked at the lack of runners. Can someone from the Kingston area shed some light on this. Were those normal entry numbers? I think one race only had 11 entries. I went to high school and University in the area and I seem to remember running to be more popular. I also noticed that Frontenac had virtually no representation...I am suprised, has Dave Grant retired? |
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Post by oldster on Oct 26, 2009 18:09:38 GMT -5
The CBC is reporting that Kingston is now a regional hotspot for swine flu, and I can certainly believe it. In our group of 20-odd high school runners (which includes many Frontenac kids) half have the flu. I'm pretty certain that this reduced the numbers at KASSA by probably a 3rd or so.
But, it's true that X-C in Kingston has been suffering in the past 5-6 years. It's been hard to keep kids in it, what with draw of other sports. (It's true, for instance, that 3 grade 9 OFSAA qualifiers and or two or three grade 11 qualifiers from Frontenac have decided to play football-- yes, football-- soccer, and field hockey, respectively, instead of run. The school will go from something like 12 OFSAA qualifiers last year to perhaps zero this year, once the swine flu has run its course. In fact, the flu threatens to seriously reduce all of Kingston's OFSAA representation this year. No one is safe at the moment.
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Post by coachfaulds on Oct 26, 2009 18:13:14 GMT -5
I was looking at the Kingston area results the other day (they seem to be gone now) and I was shocked at the lack of runners. Can someone from the Kingston area shed some light on this. Were those normal entry numbers? I think one race only had 11 entries. I went to high school and University in the area and I seem to remember running to be more popular. I also noticed that Frontenac had virtually no representation...I am suprised, has Dave Grant retired? Don't you know that running is hard work and the number of students willing to do that work seems to be dwindling  At my school, people would rather be the 33rd sub on the girls rugby team where they can sit back and contribute nothing than do a real sport where success is based on your own personal achievement and work ethic. Dave is "retired" from coaching but I'm not sure if he's retired from teaching yet. It feels strange going to meets in this area and not seeing him with the Frontenac squad. |
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Post by coachfaulds on Oct 26, 2009 18:16:42 GMT -5
The CBC is reporting that Kingston is now a regional hotspot for swine flu, and I can certainly believe it. In our group of 20-odd high school runners (which includes many Frontenac kids) half have the flu. I'm pretty certain that this reduced the numbers at KASSA by probably a 3rd or so. But, it's true that X-C in Kingston has been suffering in the past 5-6 years. It's been hard to keep kids in it, what with draw of other sports. (It's true, for instance, that 3 grade 9 OFSAA qualifiers and or two or three grade 11 qualifiers from Frontenac have decided to play football-- yes, football-- soccer, and field hockey, respectively, instead of run. The school will go from something like 12 OFSAA qualifiers last year to perhaps zero this year, once the swine flu has run its course. In fact, the flu threatens to seriously reduce all of Kingston's OFSAA representation this year. No one is safe at the moment. We had a large number of flu cases at Bay of Quinte last week as well. I'm hoping that most of my runners can stay clear of it for at least 2 more weeks but almost half the students in my gr. 9 class were absent due to illness today. The OFSAA prediction threads may take on surprising results if a few of the top runners pick up this virus over the next week or two. |
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Post by oldrunner on Oct 26, 2009 18:31:55 GMT -5
The CBC is reporting that Kingston is now a regional hotspot for swine flu, and I can certainly believe it. In our group of 20-odd high school runners (which includes many Frontenac kids) half have the flu. I'm pretty certain that this reduced the numbers at KASSA by probably a 3rd or so. But, it's true that X-C in Kingston has been suffering in the past 5-6 years. It's been hard to keep kids in it, what with draw of other sports. (It's true, for instance, that 3 grade 9 OFSAA qualifiers and or two or three grade 11 qualifiers from Frontenac have decided to play football-- yes, football-- soccer, and field hockey, respectively, instead of run. The school will go from something like 12 OFSAA qualifiers last year to perhaps zero this year, once the swine flu has run its course. In fact, the flu threatens to seriously reduce all of Kingston's OFSAA representation this year. No one is safe at the moment. We had a large number of flu cases at Bay of Quinte last week as well. I'm hoping that most of my runners can stay clear of it for at least 2 more weeks but almost half the students in my gr. 9 class were absent due to illness today. The OFSAA prediction threads may take on surprising results if a few of the top runners pick up this virus over the next week or two. Funny you should start talking about the flu. Here in Waterloo Region, we are beginning to see the flu take hold of some runners who are doubtful for their Association Final on Thursday. It seems everyone is coming down with it, so I agree, OFSAA might be pretty thin this year if runners keep dropping out. Perhaps another discussion for another thread. |
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Post by rez on Oct 26, 2009 18:50:19 GMT -5
yeah for sure in waterloo a lot of the runners I know either had the flu or have it right now and it could totally change ofsaa preds if people don't run well or at all because of this.
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Post by runningwizard on Oct 26, 2009 19:57:27 GMT -5
Numbers are down in the Kingston Area mainly due to the change in focus from teams to individuals and the loss of xc legends like Dave Grant. Gone are the days of the massive Frontenac and KCVI teams. The teams are no where near as strong as Frontenac use to be and a lot of credit would go to Dave Grant and the excellent job he did there for soo many years, he was Kingston XC and will forever be. Kingston now has fewer over-all runners, but have had some outstanding performances in the last few years and the credit there would have to go to Steve Boyd who has done some great work with many of the young runners in KASSAA region and they have performed very well in regional and provincial meets.  |
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At my school, people would rather be the 33rd sub on the girls rugby team where they can sit back and contribute nothing than do a real sport where success is based on your own personal achievement and work ethic. 