A little Nationals history

[Bill Martin]

Since I'm getting to be the longest grey-beard in the tent, I thought I'd pass along some recollections that I still consider a little weird.

Kathy and I started attending Nationals in 1976, but she was reminding me of how strange the 77 and 79 Nationals at Dallas were. The familiar -- there were two courses. The unfamiliar -- you only ran one of them. The weird -- you only ran one run, as did everyone else. Then after the entire entry had one run in, hours later everyone did a second...and again for the third. Drivers didn't work the event in those days so you did a lot of sitting around.

Sunday was a direct copy of Saturday on the same course in the same direction. Your score was like now -- the best runs of both days added. Unless like Kathy, you ran out of daylite on Saturday, then ran 4 times on Sunday.

Just in case you thought nothing ever changes...

[Adam Tarnoff]

Since I'm getting to be the longest grey-beard in the tent, I thought I'd pass along some recollections that I still consider a little weird.

Kathy and I started attending Nationals in 1976, but she was reminding me of how strange the 77 and 79 Nationals at Dallas were. The familiar -- there were two courses. The unfamiliar -- you only ran one of them. The weird -- you only ran one run, as did everyone else. Then after the entire entry had one run in, hours later everyone did a second...and again for the third. Drivers didn't work the event in those days so you did a lot of sitting around.

Sunday was a direct copy of Saturday on the same course in the same direction. Your score was like now -- the best runs of both days added. Unless like Kathy, you ran out of daylite on Saturday, then ran 4 times on Sunday.

Just in case you thought nothing ever changes...

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