With back-to-back weekends featuring major distance-only meets in California, not to mention another big one in the Texas Distance Festival last weekend, the question arises: which meet has the greatest accumulation of distance-running talent on display? This article aims to answer that question (for 2018, at least) with incontrovertible data.
But before we dig into the numbers to see which meet produced the best performances, we should acknowledge that times by themselves are NOT the only measure of a meet. As hard as meet directors may work to recruit top talent, they can't really control the entries - or the weather, for that matter. So let's take a moment to recognize a few other features that could make a distance carnival "the best" in the eyes of the athletes or coaches that attend:
Atmosphere:
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