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Convergent Computing was founded as Computer Options Inc on September 15, 1986 by Rand Morimoto, Chris Amaris, Scott Tachiki, Allen Perez, Ed Hahn, and Victor Rivas (pictured below L to R: Victor, Ed, Allen, Rand, Scott, and Chris). Computer Options, which later changed its name to California Computer Options, was a computer retail store in Downtown Berkeley open 7-days a week to walk-in customers looking to purchase IBM, Compaq, and IBM clone computer systems for home or for small business use.
The founders of Computer Options were still going to school (UC Berkeley) so it wasn't unusual to occasionally see a sign on the front door "Closed, will be back after class is over". However the first couple years, like with any small business, were difficult as the business established its reputation in the very young computer industry. Many of the same business principles that are core to Convergent Computing today were developed during these early years. California Computer Options (CCO) stood by customer satisfaction. If there was ever a customer complaint, it would be immediately escalated and resolved to provide the client with a personalized touch for any concern or issue. CCO also did things then that no one else offered at the time such as 24x7 technical support, onsite delivery and installation, and full end to end consulting assistance.
It was also during these early days that "annual events" were established such as an annual company Tahoe trip in the winter, an annual "camping trip" during the summer, and a yearend party to celebrate the year!
In 1986, CCO was one of the first in the world to start installing these things called "networks" and an acquaintance of Rand (Morimoto, CCO founder) named Bill Gates had a software company called Microsoft that came out with MS-Net that allowed computers to talk to each other.
At about the same time Rand met a guy at Comdex who was starting a company in Utah called Novell that was coming out with a new network operating system that was supposedly better than Microsoft's MS-Net. So Rand told Ray Noorda to send him his "better" network operating system. The software came on over 40 5-1/4" floppy diskettes with no manuals. One night Rand and Chris (Amaris, CCO founder) sat in front of a faxed copy of installation instructions handwritten by Ray and pieced together a Novell network. CCO was now in the Local Area Network design and installation business. CCO later became one of the first Novell Platinum Authorized resellers in the country.
After 5-years in Berkeley, the company moved to its current location in Oakland to have closer and easier access to the freeway and to have a parking lot as CCO was now doing more work throughout the entire Bay Area (plus after being in the old Berkeley un-reinforced brick building during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake where the building swayed from side to side, they were convinced it was time to move...)
The first couple years after the move proved to be very challenging for the company with changes in local walk-in retail business and the start of a recession, so things were tight. The company refocused itself on a broader corporate product sales and support services market (instead of its legacy of being a retail sales business to consumers and small businesses)
In 1991, CCO leveraged its experience with networks as not only being one of the premier Novell Platinum integrators in the country, but also leveraged its history with Microsoft and became one of the only Microsoft LanManager integrators in the Western United States. At about this same time, a pet project of the DoD and NSF called the Internet opened up to public access, so CCO faxed in a request to get a domain name (cco.com). CCO now had Internet email, although having Internet email to talk to customers in 1991 was probably like Alexander Graham Bell sitting around with the telephone getting tired of calling only Watson. However CCO had established itself as a pioneer at connecting businesses to the Internet.
It was in 1992 that CCO joined forces with Inacomp Computer Center out of Troy Michigan and became an independent franchise operation of this predominantly Great Lakes and East Coast computer hardware and software national reseller and service organization. Within a year, Inacomp merged with Valcom Computer Centers to form Inacom Corporation that was headquartered out of Omaha, Nebraska. CCO was one of the only locations in California that was considered the "Far West" for Inacom.
CCO found a niche with large corporations looking for a service provider that knew Microsoft LanManager, Novell Netware, IBM OS/2, Banyan Vines, 3Com 3+ Share, and WAN/Internet technology, and CCO supported customers like Citibank, Panasonic, Taco Bell, Toyota, ConAgra Foods, Safeway, and the like.
While surfing in San Diego in 1993, Rand ran in to a guy who was a great surfer but also happened to be the head of contracts and procurement for Sprint Communications who was on vacation from Kansas City. He encouraged Rand to bid on Sprint's business (which Rand did), and weeks later, CCO received notice that it had won a two-year $12.5-million a year contract under a special minority business vendor arrangement to provide Sprint with over 1,000 configured and tested desktops, laptops, and servers to Sprint locations across the Country each month for the next 24-months. Because of its much publicized "win" with Sprint Communications, soon afterward CCO was awarded the worldwide product sales contract with Levi Strauss. CCO went from a company doing $8-million a year to $25-million a year overnight and changed its name from California Computer Options to Inacom Oakland because of its now international fulfillment services.
From 1994 to 1996, Inacom Oakland was splashed on the front cover of magazines like Computer Reseller News, VAR Magazine, Fortune, and Businessweek with its phenomenal success as a global product reseller. It was during this time that Microsoft re-entered the marketplace with a replacement to LanManager with a new product called Windows NT (version 3.1) that later rev'd to NT3.50 and then to a version that finally worked, Windows NT v3.51. When Microsoft talked about a new messaging system called Exchange, Rand, Chris, and Sophie went to Redmond to learn how this new email system might work (although even the developers couldn't get the product to work in the training lab, but we saw "hope" for this product and stuck with it for another couple years until Exchange v4.0 shipped).
Being the first Microsoft Exchange experienced provider in the country, Rand and Chris conducted the first seminar in Northern California on Microsoft Exchange in 1996 to over 450 attendees. This was the start of our monthly seminars to the public. For the next two years, Rand and Chris were flying around the world speaking at conferences and conventions on Microsoft Exchange, and in 1997 Rand was contracted by McGraw-Hill Publishing to write his first published book (with Chris as the contracted technical editor).
Between 1995 and 1996, Rand was working with a number of his international public speaking tour colleagues and started to speak on this brand new things called the World Wide Web. Rand's flagship keynote address demonstrated the way we've been using the Internet for the past decade using tools like gopher and finger, and contrasted it with new www-based "web pages." In his early presentations, Rand postulated that "some day" companies would be selling CDs and books on the Web and we wouldn't have to go into a busy shopping mall to do our shopping. Two years later, Rand had updated his keynote presentation deck to include screenshots of some pioneer startups on the Web like this tiny company with a funny name called Amazon.com, or even funnier Yahoo!.
In 1997, during one of his keynote addresses to the Federal government, Rand was in the speaker ready room talking with another presenter for the conference, Vice President Al Gore. Over the next few months, Rand carried on several conversations with the Vice President on the Web as well as another looming topic called Y2K. Rand was asked to be 1 of 12 advisors to the White House on Y2K and spent the last few years of the millennium working with the Federal government as well as government agencies across the country and around the world understand Y2K (Rand's stance was that Y2K wasn't going to cause the world to end, and that companies just had to understand and prepare for the impact, so Rand's voice countered most of his counterparts in that Rand felt less needed to be done than more around preparedness). Rand held his breath as January 1, 2000 rolled along and no airplanes fell out of the sky, and the power grid didn't crash confirming what he was advising the President and other government and corporate leaders around the globe.
In 2000, Convergent Computing had clearly shifted away from being a product sales organization so its ties and interworkings with Inacom Corporation were greatly diminishing. Inacom Oakland made the change to establish its own name in the marketplace and became Convergent Computing. With past successes with book writing, public speaking awareness, business development generated by seminars, and strong key vendor relationships, Convergent Computing (also known as CCO) today continues it's successful business practices.
With an extensive history with Microsoft, CCO worked with all of Microsoft's technologies 2-3 years before their release. Not only having access to beta code for things like Windows 2008 or Exchange 2007 or SQL 2008 years before the product releases, but actually helping customers implement these technologies in full production environments upwards of a year to 18-months before the product release. By having months and months of early adopter experience, CCO's consultants knew the products better than anyone else in the world and wrote and continues to write dozens of bestselling books on topics with the book titles releasing at the same time the product is released to the public. So while the rest of the world is just hearing about the release of a technology, CCO's consultants have dozens of customer references and a 1000+ page book out on the technology. And just as a new product is released out of Redmond, CCO is already working on the next release, so the consultants at CCO already have a sneak peek at what's coming up over the next 5-7 years.
As CCO has grown both in size as well as in it's level of expertise from its competitive advantage in working with technologies years in advance, CCO's top consultants have become experts in their own rights. Instead of just Rand (Morimoto) and Chris (Amaris) as world renown experts, CCO's Partner Consultants Michael (Noel), Andrew (Abbate), Ross (Mistry), and Colin (Spence) ALL speak at conferences and conventions around the world and are known as worldwide experts in information technologies. Along with a couple dozen Senior Consultants that work directly with the partners, CCO's breadth and depth of expertise sets CCO apart from other consulting firms.
To hedge its bets in other market areas other than Microsoft technologies, Rand continues to speak at LinuxWorld, Sun's JavaOne Conference, IBM's SHARE Conference, Networld-Interop, and the RSA Conference somewhere in the world every year on topics ranging from server and application virtualization, Service of Authority (SOA), application platform optimization, storage area network integration, voice telephony and data system convergence, cyber-security, and the like. In fact it's not unusual for Rand to be presenting the latest in Microsoft technologies from his 8-core MacPro server, or driving a PowerPoint presentation on Microsoft email messaging from a Linux-based laptop...
More recently, Rand has been keynoting conferences on 6 continents (a few times on 4 continents in a single week!) on the topic of Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). As IT, the evolution of computing, and technological advances continue to develop, Rand continues to keep his eye out for the "next" big thing, while keeping his feet planted in the day to day technologies organizations are implementing today.
So while CCO has "evolved" from being a retail sales company for consumers and small businesses to being a technology services consulting firm for medium and large businesses, a lot of things have not changed over the years. CCO is still dedicated to high quality work, customer satisfaction, exceptional employee services, and keeps its eye to the future to always stay one (or two) steps ahead of the market and the competition.
After over a quarter century in Alameda County (Berkeley and
Oakland), CCO moved to Walnut Creek in February 2012. The move
was a combination of an expiring lease in Oakland and the time to
fit into an office setup that was more appropriate for the business
(the Oakland location was acquired in the early 1990s when CCO was
doing retail sales, however the past decade+, CCO does exclusively
consulting work, so the need for a retail location no longer makes
CCO's work remains the same, with much of the focus in the
industry being directed around "the cloud". In the summer of
2011, CCO was selected (from over 200,000 Microsoft consulting
firms) as Microsoft's "Partner of the Year for the Private Cloud"!
This was a HUGE recognition for CCO on a global scale that supported
the work CCO does day in and day out helping global organizations
plan, implement, migrate, and support their networking and
application environments!
CCO continues to work with technologies 2-3 years before the
official product release, giving the consultants at CCO hands-on
experience working with early adopter organizations in implementing
the future technologies so that when the technologies are publicly
available, CCO has easily several years of real world experience and
already written a 1500-page book based on best practices on the
topic. CCO regularly competes against some of the largest
consulting and integration firms in the world, and CCO usually
"wins" the business because while other firms may have 2000+
consultants, having just a handful of the right experts who
literally "wrote the book" on the technologies with years of real
world early adopter experience is more important in getting the job
Everyone at CCO looks forward to continuing another quarter
century of expert professional assistance, small business hands on
customer service, and a "can do" attitude of exceptional work ethic
driven services that CCO has provided to customers since its very
Partnerships are a key aspect to the success of Convergent Computing (CCO) overall business strategy. Thanks to our partners and our relationships with them we can offer our customers unparalleled access to the latest technologies, best practices, support, training, and a combined vision aimed at solving their overall business needs. Just a few of our partnerships are listed below:
Convergent Computing was the first in the world to attain the highest level of Microsoft certification, the "Certified Gold Partner for Enterprise Systems" and is currently a Gold Partner in 5 disciplines:
CCO has worked with Microsoft for over 20-years and was one of the first LanManager integrators in the world. Today, CCO's experience spans Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007, SharePoint 2007, ISA Server 2006, System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Operations Manager 2007, BizTalk Server, SQL Server 2008, Hyper-V Virtualization, PowerShell, Office 2007, and Windows Vista technologies.
Convergent Computing is the longest standing Novell authorized integrator (since 1986) in Northern California providing consulting, implementation, migration, and support services for the entire suite of Novell products and technologies (eDirectory, NetWare v3.x to v6, GroupWise, iFolder, iPrint, iChain, Managewise, Border Manager, and Portal).
CCO has several Certified Netware Engineers (CNEs) on staff that have years of experience planning, implementing, and upgrading Novell applications and services. These CNEs are also Microsoft MCSEs that can help organizations integrate and migrate Novell NetWare, GroupWise to other technologies into enterprise-based Microsoft Windows, Linux, Exchange, or other industry solutions.
In addition to having experience in network operating system and application technologies, Convergent Computing also has experience in LAN, WAN, Firewall, Wireless, and Voice-over-IP Telephony technologies. CCO helps organizations design and implement network infrastructures for optimum performance as well as provides assistance at configuring secured remote access, Internet firewall, remote office VLANs, VPNs, and mobile communication environments.
Providing more than just consulting recommendations and implementation support services, Convergent Computing also specs, procures, and implements hardware technologies like Hewlett Packard /Compaq systems. CCO has been an HP business partner for over 10-years and has provided upwards of $2-million a month in HP/Compaq servers, desktops, and storage solutions in technology solution implementations for organizations seeking a single integrator / consulting firm to assist with a complete hardware, software, and services solution.
Convergent Computing was one of the first Oracle certified partners in the country providing assistance to organizations implementing and integrating their Oracle data warehouse or Oracle Financials systems into multi-platform (Windows, Netware, Unix) environments.
Convergent Computing was one of the first Lotus Notes business partners in the country providing planning, implementation, integration, and support in multi-platform (Windows, Netware, Unix) environments. Today, CCO assists organizations with IBM/Lotus Notes integrate or migrate their Notes environments with/to other messaging environments such as Microsoft Exchange, IMAP, or POP3. This includes implementation of gateways, use of 3rd party migration tools, and address book synchronization technologies.
Convergent Computing is also a Microsoft Great Plains Business solutions partner. With Microsoft acquiring the Great Plains accounting system and a concerted effort by Microsoft to integrate Client Relationship Management (CRM) technologies to its business services offerings, CCO is helping organizations meld their business practice requirements into their technology system infrastructures. CCO provides Microsoft Great Plains consulting, planning, migration, implementation, and support services.
Convergent Computing is one of Trend Micro's longest standing partners in California. CCO offers all of Trend Micro's anti-virus products and a broad range of services to help clients address anti-virus concerns, including review, design, implementation and remediation / support services.
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An innovative dance project run by Hampshire County Council and Hampshire Youth Offending team is helping to cut crime and turnaround the lives of its young participants, according to figures published this month.
Wessex Dance Academy is a joint project between the Council's Children's Services and Culture, Communities and Business Services departments. Based in Winchester, it aims to transform the lives of young people, aged 14 to 18, who have offended or are at risk of offending, have been excluded from mainstream education, or are looked-after children.
Working alongside professional dance company Dance United, it started as a pilot project between 2009 and 2011, then grew into a fully-fledged dance academy in January last year. The scheme has been running as a termly programme, operating three 12 week programmes a year during which teenagers attend intensive dance tuition and learn to work together and trust each other and their tutors. Each group works towards a live performance in a professional theatre.
They combine the daily discipline of dance with lessons in vital life skills including preparing healthy meals, keeping fit, and making positive life choices. Specialist support is also provided for substance misuse. The Wessex Dance Academy also prepares the young people for when they leave the project, helping them reintegrate back into school or look at alternative education, training or employment options, arranging interviews and supporting applications, and if needed, helping them find accommodation.
One of the project's key aims is to reduce re-offending rates and research from the pilot phase of the project shows that there has been an 89% reduction in the number, and seriousness of offences committed by the young people involved. Property offences have dropped by 41%, violent offences are down 66% and drug offences have been completely eradicated. Those who work with the youngsters also regularly report improvements in their behaviour.
Home Office research carried out into the scheme during its pilot phase also showed that for every £1 invested in the project, there had been a return of £11.93 to society, the County Council, Police and other agencies.
16 year old Mel from the New Forest is among eight young people that make up the Wessex Dance Academy's current group. Commenting on her positive experience, she said: "It made me believe I can achieve anything if I really try. I never thought I was going to be able to get up every morning, but I did and I'm even going to start college in September."
At his latest Decision Day, Hampshire County Council's Executive Member for Culture, Recreation and Countryside, Councillor Keith Chapman awarded a total of £86,100 to support the project over the next two years. Cllr Chapman said: "To date, 55 young people have been through the scheme which offers the teenagers a unique opportunity and positive focus, helping them to raise their self-esteem, build confidence and show them they can achieve and succeed through hard work, dedication and team work.
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We use it as a standard rain barrel, collecting water from a downspout for garden watering in dry New Mexico. It suits our decor and purposes (though due to the size of the roof that this downspout drains, a barrel that holds more than 75 gallons would be better - and using two connected barrels is not visually appealing beneath this downspout). The AWFUL thing about these barrels is that the port outlets are plastic but garden hoses and other attachments are metal; so, with use (screwing hoses on and off), the plastic threads of the ports are ruined, rendering them useless (i.e., they no longer accept the attachments without letting water leak from the barrel). Gardener's Supply customer service phone personnel tried to be helpful, sending us free metal "connectors" but these DO NOT solve the problem as they too have to connect onto the ruined plastic threaded outlets. I would recommend this barrel IF the port outlets were metal, or had a metal spigot/faucet for the outlet (as at least one other brand of rain barrel does have).
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The over flow spout is great, until a wind storm- I would suggest something metal to pin around it so it doesn't blow off in high wind areas. This product worked great for us all year- I really appreciate the mesh cover to detract mosquitos and the short hose, which can help water nearby plants. The weight (empty, of course!)is great, as it's easy to move for one person.
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We bought it to use as a rain diverter because when it rained hard the water coming out of the downspout washed away our mulch. We have solved that problem by using the rain barrel to control the amount of water going into the garden by attaching hoses to it which allows the rain to come out of the barrel in different directions and at a slower speed.
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Only problem with one other I have is when it was empty, the wind knocked it over and the hose attachment broke off the barrel. Had to rig to make it work again. That is a weak spot. Other than that, this is our 3 rd one so that problem hasn't stoped me from buying them.
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- Conserves Our Well Water
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- Water Outside Plants
Able to easily fill watering can and also connect to soaker hose.
I collect rain to use with my Bromeliad collection. I like several things about this barrel :
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2. The screen on the top keeps bugs and debris that come down the rain gutter out of the barrel.
3. The screen lifts off for easy cleaning of the entire barrel once a year if needed.
4. It has a handy over-flow spout to aim water away from the house.
5. The brown color blocks out sunlight which keeps algae from growing in the barrel. This, in turn, keeps algae from clogging the mist system in my greenhouse.
6. The hose at the bottom of the barrel makes it easy to use the water rather than having to siphon out of the top.
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I bought two of these - first one leaked from everywhere - second didn't leak from one outlet! Contacted Customer Service, was told to by Marine Sealant (brand name omitted here). Four hour round trip and purchase later - didn't work. Never got follow-up contact from CS. Any wonder I won't be shopping at Gardner's in the future?
- Holds a lot of water
- Keeps water clean
- Hose kinked
- Keep tightening hookups
- Strainer warped from sun
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- Water for our chickens
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the only thing that I was troubled about was the warping of the strainer on the top....when left on the barrel, and of course the barrel is in the sun, it warped....so now, the misquitos can get in and lay eggs....not good.....may have to make my own screened top. But this shouldn't be...when buying something that costs this much, things should work ... one shouldn't have to improvise
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Portland Roughriders Twilight--July 15 (19?)
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Portland Roughriders Twilight--July 15 (19?)
During an interview after the women's 10K, Alberto Salazar mentioned he might organize a meet so Tara Erdmann and Jordan Hasay can chase the 31:45 "A" standard.
GREAT idea!
But he also apparently said that race would be "mixed", with one or more of his group doing the pacing for the women.
Meaning he'd have a man do the pacing!
I don't see why a woman couldn't be the pacer.
Salazar knows everyone in track, so surely he could find a good woman to handle the pacing, maybe going the first 5K in about 15:50.
Also, while not part of his group, I'd like to see the meet opened up to others, men and women, who need Q's.
I'm thinking especially of Cory McGee, the SC'ers who need a mark (Kipp, Higginson??), and ALL of the male 1500 crew!!
And I'm sure I've forgotten some others who need Q's.
As was suggested, it could be held at Hayward (or Portland?), with maybe 5000 fans showing up to watch!!
One thing Salazar said today that confuses me.
He said, I believe, that his group (including Mary Cain) are heading for his training site in St Moritz!
Sounded like they'd be leaving almost immediately.
If so, then when would this "marks chasing" meet be held??
And where?
Last edited by aaronk on Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
there is plenty of time, 27 days, my guess is all our runners that need standards will get into meets in europe, except the 10000 runners jordan and erdmann, the reason they probably wont chase the 10000 standard in europe is because the only womens 10000 in europe that i know of is thursdays meet in ostrava and salazar may think that is not enough recovery after their last race (salazar has said in the past his athletes can even run a marathon 1 week after a 10000 saying farah may run the 10k/marathon double in 2016, and rupp and farah ran the 10k/5k double in 2012)
but those are older mature athletes erdmann and hasay are still very young so they may need more time. or maybe salazar did not know there is a womens 10000 in ostrava at the time he was interviewed, if that is the case i am sure it has been brought to his attention by now.
another possible option is sometimes countries doing national championships allow guest athletes, defar ran her 29:59 in the british championships and kidane has run the british trials also.
hopefully the ostrava startlist will be out today or tomorrow to see if hasay and erdmann have entered.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
If you saw the video of his comments----it's only about 90 seconds long-----he was talking about setting up the meet in Eugene or Portland....and specifically spoke of "mixed" races.
Also, this (mixed races, and this meet in general) has been discussed at length in another thread....I believe the USATF women's 10K thread.
Probably should transfer those comments over here!
My thought is, even if it's "legal"----meaning that the marks would be counted for "A" standard----it's not necessary.
There must be some women who wouldn't mind running the first 5K in 15:50 or so....as their own training exercise.
Maybe even Treniere Moser could do that!
(I'd suggest Mary Cain, but she's too new to 5K distance, and a pacer needs to be steady and reliable, like Phoebe Wright was in the Oxy 1500!)
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
Added thought, about Ostrava.
I think Salazar wants a "controlled" pace, and it's a gamble to depend on a World Challenge meet's 10K field to run a "controlled" pace.
With his own meet, he could find a runner to pace them (Erdman and Hasay) at steady 76's, or whatever.
Also, why should the 1500 guys and the woman SC'ers, and Cory McGee have to go all over the globe to find races?
If Salazar does this meet, surely he could find a guy or two to take the 1500 field through in 1:55 or so.
Ditto with a woman to take McGee (and whomever else might want to run a fast 1500) through in 2:12 or 2:14.
The steeplechase too.....must be a woman somewhere who could pace Kipp and Higginson through the first 1500 of the race!
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
because thats where they make their money.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
But is money the purpose here?
I thought getting the standard was the purpose.
If the latter is the case, then a "controlled" meet close to home (Though McGee's in Florida, I believe!) would seem to suit Salazar's (and the runners, of course!) needs the best.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
womens 10000 in sollentuna on thursday featuring meseret defar.
also a mens 10000 with gebrihiwot, gebremeskel and gebremariam. http://www.trackandfield.se/anmalda.aspx?&compID=79
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
I don't think the IAAF allows mixed M/F races to get world championships standards
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
Yes, they do. See Daivd Monti's tweet:
I'm sure Salazar checked this out before publicly stating he would setup a mixed gender race.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
the attempt at 10000 for hasay and erdmann will be on july 17th. http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield ... out_sports
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
kind of last moment, but at least they get some time to recover and train for this.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
It'll be do or die!!
Since the deadline for chasing is just 3 days later, this attempt will be IT!!
Worst case scenario:
Neither makes the standards they need!
Then who goes??
BTW, make no mistake!! I hope and expect BOTH WILL make it!!
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/250797 ... mpionships
Chart of who has what at this point
Flanagan spot is sure she has A
Hasting in 4th moves up if either Hasay or Erdman fail to get a B
If they get an AB combo they both go
both get B- Hasay goes as higher placer and Hasting fills the AAB team
10,000m - Women
Shalane Flanagan Jordan Hasay Tara Erdmann Amy Hastings
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
If neither get it then Goucher would also go.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
It will be interesting to see how Hastings and Goucher manage their training and racing over the next several weeks, not knowing if they are racing the 10000 at Worlds or not.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
Since the allowing of mixed-race result for qualifying is so surprising or counterintuitive....causing me to wonder.......if, to negate wind being a factor...: could this A/B mark chase race be done on the UW 307m indoor track?!
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
as I understand the rules, yes, it could.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
WOW. i was completely ready to be ridiculed for asking that.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
Did anyone read the link? Says race will be held at Roosevelt HS in Portland which is newly built local track that UP shares but does it have a curb? Obviously UW shouldn't qualify as it has never had the requisit cones on the curves. If San Diego marks can't count then nothing at UW should ever be allowed to count.
Doesn't there have to be a minimum number of events? Sanctions? The whole mixed race deal is a travesty to the sport and just mucks up Salazar's reputation IMHO. We disallow marathon world records for pacing and yet will now allow for World Championship qualifying?
Where is the track media heaping the deserved BS on this?
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
All San Diego would need to do is put the right cones on, I think -- see many indoor meets. In fact, look at Eaton's first WR. They had cones but not adequate ones and IAAF still ratified the record (visually, it seemed that there were meters between the cones in the sections that could be assessed easily)!
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
I believe the Washington situation was resolved a couple of years back and all is now kosher.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
I'm with you 100%......concerning your second paragraph!
I even tweeted Jordan Hasay........saying I was offering unasked for advice......and then told her she should get Moser (or someone like her) to pace them (Hasay and Erdmann).......to make their effort "pure".
While mixed race results are acceptable-----i.e. Cayla Hatton's 33:17 last year in a men's college 10K race------I'd rather they be banned.
Hasay said, in an interview, that she'd be having guys in front of her, alongside her, and in back of her!!
Geez, that sounds like that protective truck convoy from "Smokey and the Bandit"!!!
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
[quote="aaronk] Hasay said, in an interview, that she'd be having guys in front of her, alongside her, and in back of her!!
Geez, that sounds like that protective truck convoy from "Smokey and the Bandit"!!! [/quote]
Actually, more like every marathon Gebrselassie has run in the past decade.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
[quote="aaronk] I even tweeted Jordan Hasay........saying I was offering unasked for advice......and then told her she should get Moser (or someone like her) to pace them (Hasay and Erdmann).......to make their effort "pure". [/quote]
Another idea: You could keep a respectful distance and let her and her new coach do what they feel is best.
And maybe stop second-guessing a proven successful expert, too, while you're at it.
It's not about you.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
If chase race were on UW's 307m indoor track...not only no wind but they could set thermostat @ 57.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
They'd be running close to 33 laps!!
Better give them anti-dizziness pills!!
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
would some one like cory McGee be permitted to run in the Salazar meet or is it only for his Oregon flk
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
He is following the rules, so why bash him? If you don't like the rules, complain about the IAAF. He is doing everything legitimately & above table to help his athletes, which is what a coach should be doing. USATF should also support whatever is in the best interests of the athletes and helping them. That is why they are allowing chasing of the standards. There weren't any realistic opportunities for the women's 10k candidates to run in a quality 10k in good conditions. So, Salazar didn't have a choice other than setup a race.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
There are women who could run pace the first 5K in 15:50, but Luke Puskedra could run the whole 10K in 31:40 as a training run. Besides, he would be an excellent windshield. Maybe that's his role in NOP...
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
Must be some woman... who? And why would they do it, how reliable are they as a pacer? For most women distance runners 15:50 is more than a training race. This argument is about male/female pacer is ridiculous. Put the best person for that role on the track and see if the two women can meet the standard.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
I was thinking mainly about Treniere Moser.
She's part of Salazar's team, so he wouldn't have to go outside of his group.
She's run 15:11...and could probably go much faster.
And.....she actually DID some pacing....of Tara Erdmann during the PTF 5K!!
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
If she and Salazar thought that was best for her and Hasay/Erdman you'd think she'd volunteer. Why do you think she hasn't volunteered?
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
I have no problem with a mixed-gender mark. With all this debate, maybe they should just use pacing lights like the ITA used.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
Drafting, not just pacing, especially if there are winds. This could be a problem if the weather is bad; and unfortunate choice if the late date does not allow a makeup.
Portland Roughrider Twilight--July 15 (19?)
It's now official.
It has a NAME!!
The Alberto Salazar meet organized to help Jordan Hasay and Tara Erdmann get their Q's for the WC....is being called the Portland Roughrider Twilight Meet.
The Roughriders is the high school's mascot, and all income from the meet is being donated to the high school's athletics department.
Besides the women's/men/s 10K (one race!!), there will be some 800's, miles, 3K's and a woman's SC!!
Some POSSIBLE entrants names are being spoken of:
Luke Puskedra in a 3K
Trevor Dunbar in a mile
Mary Cain in an 800
the 3 Bowerman AC women in the SC.
If the weather, or the runner's health, is sub-par on the 15th, the 10K will be held separately on the 19th, same location.
P.S. Can someone who knows how please change this thread's title to the above.....Portland Roughriders Twilight--July 15 (19?).
Thank you!!
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
so cain is doing the 800 for speedwork I suspect, that gives her 2 weeks of intense training for it. to re sharpen for Moscow
lets see what she can do in the 800, now she can focus solely on that
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
I imagine she will continue to train as a mid-d runner, specifically one preparing for rounds of 1500m in Moscow, and not "solely" on the 800m.
Re: Salazar's "mark chasing" meet
Cain running there is NOT official!!
Portland Track Festival staff are organizing the meet, NOT Salazar!!
(They took over the organization of the meet!!)
Portland Track twitter has some entry info up.
(See Portland Track twitter!)
In the initial write-up about the meet, the above names (Puskedra, Dunbar, the Bowerman AC women--but no names!!--and Cain) were MENTIONED.....but nothing is official as yet!!
Re: Portland Roughriders Twilight--July 15 (19?)
Alberto Salazar said today (on Twitter??) that Jordan Hasay had "the best distance workout of any female athlete I've ever coached"!!!
Sounds like her attempt at an "A" just might get an "A" grade!!
Re: Portland Roughriders Twilight--July 15 (19?)
Why is this marks-chasing meet to be held on a high school track instead of Lewis & Clark college stadium, the usual host for Portland Track Festival (and many other USATF-sanctioned meets for decades). It has great spectator seating, sightlines, and sound system plus nice steeple water jump, tall trees nearby serving as wind break and cooling sun-shade, lots of parking, etc.
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