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Reply to "USATF membership"

When I first started measuring I wasn't a USATF member. In North Carolina USATF doesn't really amount to much outside of the triangle, and until recently was virtually non-existant outside of track. The local club was, but quite honestly every year the question "why are we in USATF exactly" came up. I learned about measuring from Pete at an RRCA conference, not USATF. There really wasn't anything outside of getting an occasional sanction that the club needed USATF for. The only reason people joined was they were forced to when they ran some marathons.

When I joined USATF it was in the PA Association, not NC, and I've maintained that historical affiliation for nearly 15 years. That's a long story that involves beer, so I won't recount it here.

In the last 4-5 years USATF in NC has made a bit of a comeback, but it still may be a hard sell for a new measurer in this area. I think it's a good idea for measurers to be USATF members, but if we're going to require it we need a better selling point than "they back us" because frankly I don't believe that. RRTC doesn't exist because USATF backs it, it exists because there are dedicated people that feel it's necessary.
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