Canadian Athletics – Discourse

2024 ACXC Info Board and Prediction Quick Hitters

December 1, 2024June 11, 2025Not TrackieLeave a comment

Info Board Prediction Quick Hitters “OKAY. It’s A-C-X-C time. I can’t take this anymore. Everyday I check entries and it’s RISING.” Listen to your yearly dose of 2021 Hard Rock Nick and then toss us a key because we’re cranking these out faster than you can shotgun a root beer. But first of all,...

Athletics Canada Track and Field Championships Tweet Archive, Athlete Interviews, & Olympic Team Breakdown

August 2, 2024August 2, 2024Not TrackieLeave a comment

Hot Takes & Tweet Archive Interviews Olympic Team Breakdown Notes world athletics invite*: was previously outside the Olympic quota, but qualified after enough international athletes scratched from the event. Q: How can an athlete make the Olympics if they are ranked 90th in the world and the quota for their event is only 42...

2024 Athletics Canada Bell Sucks Track and Field Championships/Trials Predictions, Recaps, and just overall Hot Takes Days 1-2

June 27, 2024August 1, 2024Not TrackieLeave a comment

Negative 5 million degrees outer space mode cold open Yeah, let’s eat the low-hanging fruit to start shall we? FIRST, when we were doing research for this event and checked out the Canadian Track and Field Tour results page, we realized that all the results listed were still from 2023. It took us 30...

2023 ACXC Info Board

November 25, 2023June 11, 2025Not TrackieLeave a comment

...

CTFL: How Does it Work? Can Anyone Beat the Spitfires?

August 4, 2023February 11, 2024Not TrackieLeave a comment

For more writing on the CTFL, see our previous article: “For the CTFL to Fulfill Its Goals, The Athletes Have to Make It Happen.” We’re nearing the completion of the second CTFL season here and the Spitfires are killing it. Partly because they share a name with the best OHL team that league has...

Not Trackie 2023 ACTF Predictions Column

July 28, 2023June 11, 2025Not TrackieLeave a comment

Intro Don’t ask and you shall receive anyway. WE’RE BACK and late, as always, with some Canadian National Track and Field Championships predictions. What’s the point of the intro? Usually it’s to comment on how silly this is while subtly (or not so subtly) bringing attention to important political issues. Today we’re gonna do...

ACXC 2022

November 25, 2022June 11, 2025Not TrackieLeave a comment

Meet Info: here Live Results Link: here As hard rock Nick would say: “OKAY, IT’S A-C-X-C TIME.” Honestly, idek why I’m writing this –I don’t have the time and it’s definitely going to be awful and potentially rife (RIFE) with grammatical errors. I didn’t really talk to anyone and don’t even want to look...

Race Videos up on Youtube

October 29, 2022August 10, 2023Not TrackieLeave a comment

This year we have begun attempting a new race video project featuring hot mics, shaky cameras, and silly commentary. Watch here OR DON’T. We will be posting the OUA video in the coming days. We will also be out in Halifax to cover Usports and Ottawa to cover ACXC. That is all (for now)....

Not Trackie… We Back

October 14, 2022August 10, 2023Not TrackieLeave a comment

Yeah, every once in a while you sit down and crank out a bunch of the projects you have been working on throughout the night while munching on cinnamon raisin bagels. See a few updates below! Athletes and Activism, A Series -Part One: Truth and Reconciliation Not Trackie 2022 U SPORTS Post Thanksgiving Bash...

2021 ACXC HOT TAKES

November 25, 2021June 11, 2025Not TrackieLeave a comment

Intro Haha that’s right, ACXC decided to absolutely bungle this one (per sources). Usports XC might have featured a starting “Danger Gauntlet,” (and I witnessed not one, but two fellow runners absolutely eat it in the Danger Gauntlet, I hope they survived) but ACXC has decided to one up them by blasting the course...