Flashes of Panic

It seems to be a day for being misinterpreted. A. and I were extensively quoted by the Daily Hampshire Gazette's running columnist on the USATF indoor meet, particularly Jen Toomey. He also mis-identified Shayne Culpepper as "Shane Cunningham." I am mostly amused. Partly that he essentially did his meet coverage by calling us, but also because he does understand running; he just doesn't have the time or inclination to keep up with the latest stars. At RW we talked about the difference between "the sport" of running and "the activity" of running; those who get one don't necessarily get the other.

Anyone in the Gazette's market who really cared about the big meets read about them online (or drove to Boston, as we did) instead of waiting for the newspaper, anyway. Coverage of sports is going to become either online or local; a local writer summarizing a meet in Boston or Budapest (confusingly, the World Cross-Country meet will be in Brussels in a few weeks) is a pointless exercise to begin with.