Quinn McConnell takes a narrow win over Brynn Siles in a merged Liberty Bell - St. Vrain meet, with time adjustments.
Yes, you really would like to know what a merge of Liberty Bell and St. Vrain would look like. The next best thing to having all these teams in the same meet would be having a reasonable merge of the two meets.
If you've been around for a couple of years now, you know I try to do a merged scoring of St. Vrain and Liberty Bell. To do this, we need a conversion factor to convert Liberty Bell times to St. Vrain equivalent times. You can't use the same factor year after years because conditions differ year to year.
But, we do know that a lot of athletes who ran at Liberty Bell also ran at Arapahoe or Centaurus the week before. The same can be said for a lot of athletes who ran at St. Vrain. So, what we do is take all the athletes who ran at Liberty Bell and Arapahoe and calculate a conversion factor between those meets (actually, I do this separately for boys and girls und...
