Some Perspective on the Cancelation of the National Age Group Championships

Matt Cazalas over at SwimBikeRunStLouis offers some good perspective on the USAT's cancelation of the National Age Group Championships:

"Chest thumpers who claim to have trained in worse storms should probably ensure that their life insurance policies are in good standing, or renew their health club memberships. Granted, this writer didn't throw a thousand or more hard-earned greenbacks at the race, didn't suffer the frustration of an entire season's focus getting washed away with the torrents of rain runoff, or didn't endure double-digit hours behind a steering wheel to arrive in Smithville then suffer through what surely must have seemed an even longer return trip home. By the same token, this writer didn't spend months wrestling with a thousand behind-the-scenes race-related details, wasn't confronted with staging a prestigious national championship in unthinkable conditions, or didn't face making a decision, the result of which was sure to elicit 1,250 highly charged emotional reactions."