Friday, September 18, 2015

Farmer Invitational meet entries and time schedule

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Courses like these that run around sports field and basketball courts and around tracks are a disgrace to cross country. It is so sad that every other sport has venues while ours has to resort to left overs. With the beauty that is California and the North Coast they can't find a plot of land to run XC on?

Albert Caruana said...

A valid point. I also think having races on school grounds are great because runners are able to be seen by their classmates.

Using non school grounds for XC courses is also getting tougher and tougher with so much paperwork and hurdles you have to go through to use such properties.

Coach Ozzie said...

I agree with the original poster to some degree, but I am also appreciative that Hayward High School continues to offer up their school/course where everyone else has failed to do so, either for logistical reasons, reasons of cost, or reasons of expertise. The school is playing host to two invitationals and the NCS Championships this year. Not many courses will be so busy and probably not any that put so much burden on one school. Theoretically there might be better places to run cross country, but Hayward has been the school willing and able for a long time now. And let's not forget that before Hayward High became the lone NCS host course, there was a rotation between Newhall Park (a nice course that was not on a school campus) and Ukiah High School, which also was a course that ran through campus.

Anonymous said...

No Boys Varsity heat sheets?

Anonymous said...

NCS at Crystal Springs it happened back in the 70s.

hank said...

Year?

hank

Carl Triola -CasaXC said...

We have used a ranch up in Sonoma county which is generous to let us, but due to a change in schedules we haven't scheduled it this year. It is true XC: cows, cow paths, gopher holes, ankle busting cracks, single track, no shade, steep hills, rough footing through brambles and brush, boiling hot and/or frigidly cold - some of my kids love it others hate it- I know our opponents never liked coming there. If anyone has a free Wednesday (or maybe a free Saturday) let me know.

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