Sophia Maeda leads a sharply-improved Mead team this season. They get a larger stage to show something on Friday at Dave Sanders. Photo by Alan Versaw.
There is no bigger meet this weekend, nor with more implications for the remainder of the season ahead, than the Dave Sanders Invitational.
It's a meet that is both spectator friendly and not. If you're content with a total of about four up-close-and-personal views near the start and finish, the Dave Sanders is almost the ultimate in spectator friendliness. On the other hand, if you like to see what's going on in the middle of a race, you're down to two options. One, go to another meet, or, two, bring along a pair of binoculars. It's a long way to the far side of the lake in Clement Park.
The latter option is the easy choice for me. I can pass for a birder almost anywhere I go, anyway, so binoculars are the easy choice. That, and I usually have a pair in my backpack to begin with (because you never know when a Black-throated Blue Warbler i...
