It was a sea of red and black at the start of the Eagle Valley Invitational. Photo by Alan Versaw.
Now that Liberty Bell is over, coaches can start taking count of those little nagging injuries that always crop up about this time of year and figure out how they'll get all those runners to the regional and state meets.
The other main thing that the passing of Liberty Bell does for us is to make it a lot easier to identify the real contenders from the almost contenders, from the still-not-quite-there teams.
But, Liberty Bell wasn't the only race in the state this weekend, so let's take a look at all of the action....
One would think that four inches of rain on the previous two days would make for a muddy Air Academy course. It didn't. And that might just be a testament to how dry the soil has been around southeastern Colorado. It's also sandy soil at the Air Academy course, a soil type not known for its ca...