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630. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Track & Field, with Kyle Merber

Published: April 11, 2023, 9 a.m.

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"This is not an easy question for many reasons!"

Welcome back to \\u201cEverything You Ever Wanted to Know!\\u201d I\\u2019ve worked in the running industry in some capacity for roughly a decade now, and as much as I\\u2019ve immersed myself, there\\u2019s still so much I don\\u2019t know or understand. So if I, a relative industry insider, am still confused about things like shoe contracts, drug testing, waterfall starts on the track, and the Diamond Leagues, surely I\\u2019m not alone. I put out the ask \\u2014 What\\u2019s something you don\\u2019t understand or have always wanted to ask about the running industry? \\u2014\\xa0and the responses came pouring in with\\xa0great\\xa0questions.

So today, former professional runner and founder of\\xa0The Lap Count\\xa0(and track and field\\u2019s biggest fan and hype guy)\\xa0Kyle Merber\\xa0is here to answer all of your questions about the track, the roads, the big leagues, and more. Lane assignments and Olympic standards and \\u201cWhy are there so many U.S. National Championships?\\u201d and world rankings, oh my! (Listen to part one of this series \\u2014 all about the business of running \\u2014 here.)

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