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)....
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Not Trackie… We Back
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...
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Athletics and Activism, A Series -Part 1: Truth and Reconciliation
Prelude The community nature of sports gives athletes a unique position of influence in society and a platform that can be a powerful tool to spur social change –even fringe Canadian university sports can have many supporters. There are numerous examples throughout history where athletes chose to use their platforms to fight for social...
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Not Trackie 2022 U SPORTS Post-Thanksgiving Bash Predictions
Intro So yeah so… a while back, Canadian Running Magazine posted some Usports men’s and women’s pre-season rankings that were lacking a bit of info from key sources. Now we can’t really blame Marley –it took us years of being an idiot to get to the insanely high quality of nonsense you are currently...
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@RunningHotTakes 2022 Canada Summer Games Prediction Contest
We’re back with another prediction contest for ya, and there are more than 24 hours to enter instead of just four like last time (Deadline is Friday, August 19, 9am Eastern Time)! This is also probably a good time to finally release the long overdue results of the last prediction contest, which was a...
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@RunningHotTakes 2022 ACTF Championships Prediction Contest
Here ya go folks. The super late Not Trackie 2022 Athletics Canada Track and Field prediction contest is here -> https://forms.gle/VFwmdN3MWNtH2JZd7. Unfortunately, it took us an hour to make this silly video, so now there are about four hours left to enter (not five). Deadline is June 24, 8pm Pacific Time (11pm Eastern). THE...
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The Guelph Athletics Scandal Two Years In: What have we learned?
In the room of Canadian university athletics, it would seem, only the elephant remains. Two years ago this week, the biggest and most salacious sports misconduct story in Canadian university athletics history broke on none other than front page of our putative national newspaper, the Globe and Mail. The now infamous story—written by former...
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Facilitating Sports in a COVID-19 Pandemic World
The Short Read If we want sports to go on during a raging global pandemic, we should not simply advocate for sports while ignoring the harms they entail. We need to come to terms with the unjust decisions that have led to the cancellation of sports, and pay attention to the social implications of...
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A Not Trackie New Years
*The Basement* It’s New Year’s Eve, and Trevor Hofbauer finds himself locked-in to a high-intensity mini-sticks training session to make sure his RunningHotTakes marathon ranking score improves for 2022. Kieran Lumb watches intently from the stands; since he doesn’t go to school, he has a lot of free time. Trevor *Snipes top cheese* Ahhhhhhh...
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ACXC HOT TAKES
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...
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