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The Boston Valentine Shuffle, by Jon Gugala, note by Larry Eder

Larry EderbyLarry Eder
February 7, 2013
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Boston University Track & Tennis Center will be empty February 8-9, 2013, 
photo courtesy of Boston University

Meteorologists warned of 24-30 inches of snow in the New England area. Boston University cancelled its popular Valentine Invitational earlier today due to the weather threat. Now, athletes are scambling and centers such as the New Balance Armory T&F Center in NYC are being avalanched with athletes needing an indoor facility to race! 

Jon Gugala sent us this exclusive piece this afternoon on the how the cancelled meet is affecting some athletes looking for a qualifier for the USATF Indoor Champs. 



The Boston Valentine
Shuffle

 

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BOULDER, Colo. – Macklin
Chaffee is debating on whether to board a bus in the next five minutes.

 

At the end of that bus
trip is Denver International and a flight to Boston, originally for the Boston
University Valentine Invitational indoor meet, which was canceled earlier today
by the meet director due to a forecast of up to two feet of snow between Friday
and Saturday.

 

The question is, does
Chaffee get on the bus? Because there’s a lot riding on it. For the 26-year-old
miler and other post-collegians like him, this weekend in Boston was about more
than just a time–it’s about a place.

 

The USA Indoor Track &
Field Championships qualification window is coming to a close on February 24,
and many, like Chaffee, who opened their indoor seasons in earnest in the new
year, are in need of that mark (4:01.20 for the mile). The BU Valentine Invite
was the critical next step.

 

“For me, USA Indoors [is]
a big chance to get up and compete on a nationally televised event–and do
well,” Chaffee says, adding that his adopted home in Boulder historically gives
him a “natural advantage” when competing at altitude.

 

But without a mark, he
won’t be going. And if he doesn’t race this weekend, there aren’t a lot of
opportunities left.

 

“[Boston] was canceled
late enough that I’m striking out trying to get into other meets,” Chaffee
says.

 

When he
got the news about Boston, Chaffee called

Spire Institute in Ohio–they’re hosting a meet this weekend. But they’re all
booked up. So he found one at the University of New Mexico. But it’s at
altitude, and all their guys are going up to Washington for a meet. The
University of Nebraska has one. But it won’t be fast enough. University of
Washington is hosting their annual Husky Classic, but a last-minute plane
ticket’s price makes the trip cost-prohibitive.

 

Chaffee’s last chance he
feels is at the Armory in New York City on Saturday, where the legendary indoor
track will host the Lafayette Rider Winter Games, primarily a collegiate meet.

 

Jack Pfeifer, the Armory
Foundation’s director for track & field college meets, says that in
response to an overwhelming interest from both collegiate and post-collegiate
athletes like Chaffee since BU’s cancellation, the Armory meet will start an
hour earlier, at 12:00 P.M. instead of at 1, and that the meet will last “as
long as we have to.”

 

Co-director of the meet,
Rider University’s Bob Hamer, says that he received the Boston news after
getting out of a staff meeting at 10 A.M., and spent the next four hours
fielding phone inquiries about adding athletes–and therefore, additional
heats–to the meet. “It’s been crazy,” he says, adding that already over 100
athletes have been accepted, and he expects that number to go higher before the
day’s end.

 

While Hamer says that the
additional entries will be preferential toward collegiate athletes, clubs and
pro athletes will also be considered.

 

“It’s a difficult time of
year, and we’re sensitive to that,” Hamer says. “We’re doing the best we can to
accommodate everybody.”

 

But back in Boulder,
Chaffee is still deliberating on whether to change his ticket to New York City,
hoping that he’ll receive confirmation of acceptance in the meet before he
boards. Without the Armory meet, he’ll be dependent on the good graces of some
collegiate last-chance meet director–hardly a guarantee.

 

It was in Boston in 2011
that Chaffee when sub-4 in the mile, notching his PR of 3:58.8. And it’s Boston
again in 2013 that has changed everything.

 

“I know that I’m fit
enough to run the standard at that meet,” Chaffee says. “I mean, it’s an indoor
meet. When was the last time an indoor meet was cancelled?”

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    Larry Eder

    Larry Eder has had a 51-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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