{"comments":{"943605":{"pb_id":"10097","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"943605","comment_id":"943605","member_id":"10097","comment":"@ Matt: Hips Don&#039;t Lie, had such potential.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nLooking forward to the future:    <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nWill runningspace.com finally do a feature illustrating all of the opportunities that are available to endurance athletes in race walking?<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nRunningSpace.com  should do a story and place it prominently on its web page about what could happen to America&#039;s medal count in the Olympics and the IAAF World Championships if the USA seriously invested in winning any of the 9 medals available in race walking?   Just think what a training group of 12 post collegiate male and 12 post collegiate females could obtain if they decided they really did want to be Olympians.   <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nWhy should a distance runner consider leaning how to walk?  Sometimes all it takes is switching to an event where there isn&#039;t so much competition ahead of you.   And right now race walking is an event with $60,000 in prize money being awarded each year by USATF alone.   And there aren&#039;t even enough 20 somethings to claim all of the money.    Yeah, prize money in the three race walk events is the same as is awarded in the 100m dash, the 1,500m run and the 10,000.    So if you are going home broke after nationals, maybe you could afford your own copy of Hips Don&#039;t Lie by becoming a race walker. <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nAmazingly - the NCAA even allows its T&F athletes to earn prize money as race walkers while they are actively participating as scholarship holding T&F athletes in college.   <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nSo here is the real horror story for all of the collegiate Zombie runners in T&F. You could actually be making money by race walking to supplement those 1\/4 to 1\/3 scholarships (if you are so lucky to get that much) -  but how many of you have been told that by your NCAA college coaches?    <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nNah, they want you to be penniless and broke.    <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nMaybe you should look into and take up race walking - the toughest of all endurance events in T&F. <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIf you have any questions - or want to know how to get started you can contact me (19 years at the same NAIA college coaching race walking) at                           mv_tc@sbcglobal.net","date_added":"Jan 10th 2014, 10:39pm","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":[],"can_delete":false,"item_id":101896,"item_type":"video","pb_image":"i\/no_avatar.png","pb_title":"Miami Valley TC","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=10097","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/Miami-Valley-TC.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"12595"},"936329":{"pb_id":"53664","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"936329","comment_id":"936329","member_id":"53664","comment":"Ian, Tom, Lauren, Jesse, Matt...  humor and a smile...... Max King and his bow in episode 2!!!  Bring it on!!!","date_added":"Dec 17th 2013, 4:21am","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":[],"can_delete":false,"item_id":101896,"item_type":"video","pb_image":"i\/no_avatar.png","pb_title":"Daniel B.","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=53664","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/Daniel-B-.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"1347286"},"935138":{"pb_id":"31","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"935138","comment_id":"935138","member_id":"31","comment":"Boys, that video was incredible!!! Congrats on an amazing job with your epic short film!","date_added":"Dec 15th 2013, 2:22am","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":[],"can_delete":false,"item_id":101896,"item_type":"video","pb_image":"members\/avatar\/337.jpg","pb_title":"Mammone","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=31","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/Mammone.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"67"},"934240":{"pb_id":"2901","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"934240","comment_id":"934240","member_id":"2901","comment":"Great show. Made two old folks laugh.","date_added":"Dec 14th 2013, 3:45am","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":[],"can_delete":false,"item_id":101896,"item_type":"video","pb_image":"i\/no_avatar.gif","pb_title":"gramp gram","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=2901","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/gramp-gram.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"2483"},"933911":{"pb_id":"4","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"933911","comment_id":"933911","member_id":"4","comment":"Pumped at how this whole series turned out.  Everyone watching should expect every episode to be a MUST WATCH!","date_added":"Dec 13th 2013, 8:55pm","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":{"wally_id":"31","email_settings":"127","email":"ross@teamxo.com","address":"ross","gender":"m","member_id":"4","member_name":"ross","avatar_location":"av-4.jpg","avatar_type":"upload","avatar":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-4.jpg"},"can_delete":false,"item_id":101896,"item_type":"video","pb_image":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-4.jpg","pb_title":"ross","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=4","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/ross.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"31"}},"last_id":"933911","url":"comments.php?item_type=video&item_id=101896&item_url=gprofile.php?mgroup_id=55"}