
Shawn Dubbs and Nic Heller are two stars of former years who still hold Center Invitational meet records. Photos by Alan Versaw/Paul Jaeger.
* - To be fair, the Center Invitational dates back a good deal further than the Colorado Track XC records. In fact, I vividly recall running a rather mediocre 2:22 880 (yards) back on a cold day in Center early in the season of my junior year of high school. Back then, the Center track was more or less a surface of sand, rolled flat, with a concrete inside curb. But, the records shown below do cover the entire era since the synthetic track was installed in Center.
So, you'd like to make your mark on the Center Invitational? Here's what it takes to score a top-five mark since the new synthetic surface has been installed...