Rye High Cross Country As some of you know, the creation of cross country as a full time sport at Rye was rather sudden, as was my accession as cross country coach. Even though I lived in Rye for a year or two in the early seventies and consider it one of the best places […]

High Altitude Challenge On August 12 Kyle Reno and I drove to Alamosa for the High Altitude Challenge 5K. I hadn’t particularly wanted to go but when I read that Joe Vigil was leaving the Valley, I felt I had to go pay tribute to Colorado’s most famous coach. Although I didn’t particularly run well,

The meet was almost too good to be true. We had some bobbles, but we placed in the three relays we qualified. We were fifth in the 4×200, third in the 4×800 and state champs in the 4×400. Obviously there was a lot of teamwork involved but Adam Arellano was the man of the hour.

Regionals at Cheyenne Mountain High School on May 11-12, 2001 It’s the morning of the regional track meet. Actually the pole vault was held yesterday at Dutch Clark. After one event the team scores for girls are Alamosa 18, County 6. For boys South 18, Alamosa 12.5, County 4.5. That’s a bigger hole than we

Pueblo Challenge 4/20/2001 & 4/21/2001 It was a long and often glorious track meet that went from 3 to 7 Friday and 9 to 6 Saturday. When it was over there were a few disappointments, but a lot more impressive achievements by the County kids. The meet was divided into two divisions, restricted, 4A and

City Meet 4/14/01 It was another gorgeous day for a track meet and there were some very impressive performances. Fortunately some were by Hornets. In the boys 4×800 Kyle led off with a 2:15.2. That was a near PR for Kyle but we were well back in the pack. Adam Arellano tried to get it