It didn't take Mountain Vista long to find themselves in control of the St. Vrain race and, ultimately, the entire weekend. Photo by Alan Versaw.
The idea of merging times from two different meets demands a bit of explanation. How can you take results from two completely different meets and throw them into a meaningful set of combined results?
I thought about this question for a long time this weekend and eventually came to what, to me, seemed like a reasonable solution.
You begin with taking a third meet which had a very large representation from both Liberty Bell and St. Vrain as a point of comparison. In this case, I took the Arapahoe Warrior Invitational. Of all the boys who ran both Arapahoe and Liberty Bell, you had an average time of 20:42.5 for Arapahoe and an average time of 19:32.9 for Liberty Bell. That means you could multiply the boys times from Arapahoe by .944 and "get" the times for Liberty Bell. The girls numbers were 25:11.6 and 23:41.5, yielding a multiplier of .940. Av...
