Flat Hills Road

I occasionally get email from a European outfit called “All-Athletics” which bills itself as “the most comprehensive athletics database.” I have to wonder what Mirko Jalava thinks of this tag line.

At any rate, their most recent email included a list of “competition rankings” among one-day events this year, and the top four ranked as listed in the title of this post: Zurich Weltklasse, Rome’s Golden Gala, Monaco’s Herculis, and Eugene’s Prefontaine Classic.

I’m not going to argue with their competition rankings; Pre was a great meet this year, and next year with the Diamond League in place it’s not going to suffer any. But looked at as a list of cities… well, one of these is different. Anyone? Anyone?

Among the many projects I’ve been working on recently, I’ve been helping Alison Wade bring content back to her site, eliterunning.com. Site hosting fees were making the site an economic drag, and I’ve been putting some spare time into building a more lightweight site structure which could be hosted less expensively. We’re still ironing out the kinks in the system, including bringing back the 80,000+ photos Alison posted on the old site from 2006-2008, but meanwhile the new site is open and ready to grow. If you bother reading this site, you’ll probably like that one.