Rebekah Greene 2:07.77 W16 NR

Athletics NZ supplimentary rules state:

That rule refered to statesnbsp;quot;No performance set by an athlete will be recognised if it has

been accomplished during a mixed competition.quot;



Who cares if she was running against guys....

5. Rule 260.18d - IAAF Competition Rules 2009 is to be disregarded for New Zealand

records set in mixed competition.

Records mean nothing it is just a guide too improvement. They happen when who ever gets all the right conditions and has the ability too take advantage of the moment . As i have stated before women in Athletics is treated as a nbsp;poor cousin and untill this is rectifiednbsp; all this drible about men and women racing together. In Dunedin they get exactly the same treatment as men gt; As Brownie has stated our numbers are few and our women are very young . The structure works well even our youngest run with masters year 9 to learn race craft and pace and withnbsp;masters nbsp;support they learn alot. As for Beck she races men as she needs to learn too keep pace with world youth runners e.g being around the 4min pace off 1500s and the 200min nbsp;for 800s I see those times as hard too achieve as yet ,nbsp; but there nbsp;will be a time it will happen at the world U20s. seems more people on here are concerned she is thinking about records, never once have we gone out too get a record PB is our priority if the conditions favour her and she gets a good PB and a record is there then thats the job of the officails too decide, Remember lots of recordsnbsp;they come and go and are irrelevant other than as i said too a guide for progression of improvment. Seedings are far more important as performace records

David: This is because they change the rules for age groups every few years so the records have to keep being reset...

Shit comparison.
Shit rule.
Shit all around really.

Footracing shouldnbsp;be the most simple sport there is: you run for a pre-determined distance, and get a placing and a time. The person with the lowest of each wins. So much bureaucracy,nbsp;around records especially. The sport would be so much better without it.
Awesome stuff by Becky - hopefully shes got good people around her to keep her in the sport and pumping out incredible times.
Alan - the reference to Brad was 50 compliment, 50 jealousy, 50 respect.nbsp;Adds up tonbsp;150, because hes THAT good.

The rule was changed so thatnbsp;Womennbsp;could acquirenbsp;qualifying standards to global events racing the men,nbsp;it should really go one step further and apply to records. At the end of the day she ran the time on an approved 400m track.

nbsp;Browno why would a 14yo boy be in a girls race in the first place.nbsp;

I think it is a bullshit rule myself, I think she should be able along with any other girls to get records paced by guys, but thats the rules.nbsp;

The genders are completely different, the Ballam example is stupid, which I thought you would see juniors have been able to run up a grade for years.

Would rather not harp on about this and rather just keep it at a great run thread.nbsp;

That is all.

As i have been told records and world qualifying can only be against women , how NZ records are concerned i think thats another matter and as for Becks time this weekend if she is good enough she will do it again but brownies right we dont havenbsp;many quality runners in that female group over that distance in Dunedin and it gets expensive chasing it around New Zealand. so the pace the yourng blokes race suits her long term preperation we havnt peaked for any event this year maybe some tapering but other training continues as normal she will rest over xmas then attend Rio squad camp in January and move onto some invite meets to run out of her comphort zone, then NZ nbsp;Nationals 2 weeks after thatnbsp;the Australian nationals under supervison of Raylene Bates in Melbourne cheers Jim

nbsp;Browno that just sounded stupid.nbsp;

Can think of 3 girls already faster than her, bit disrespectful to them. 10sec up the track a bit over top too.nbsp;
And regarding those guys racing Willis, they are men, racing against other men, there is no question there. Rules are rules, and if hasnt peaked yet then should have no trouble running that by herself soon.

Done m8 cheers Jim

I believe she has not even peaked yet, and is running with the men so she can get used too the pace, for the year 2012 as stated in the ODT today

looking at the results - Rebekah ran in race 1 with the guys??? Hard to tell with those Otago results. If that is the case then it wouldnt be a NZ record anyway. Surprised that it is listed as an otago record also but local rules might be slightly different

Either way a great run and hope she goes even faster by seasons end