Sand in Your Creek, Sand in Your Eyes and Ears

Apr 08, 2012

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Lewis-Palmer freshman sprinter Nicole Montgomery made her mark in the world in the waning light of the girls 200 at Sand Creek. All photos by Alan Versaw.

In Bob Dylan's song from 50 years ago, the questions were different, but the refrain was the same. To every question, the answer was, "blowin' in the wind."

And that pretty well summarizes Friday's Sand Creek Scorpion Invitational. There was a lot of blowing sand and grit around Sand Creek High School on Friday evening.

While it's a given that there will be a few meets each spring where wind pretty much makes a mess of things, we'd come to hope for better than that based on the experience of the last few weekends. But this meet was a reminder that, ultimately, track and field is at the mercy of the meteorological conditions.

And a failed timing sensor added to the misery.

But, in the midst of adversity--whether large or small--the human spirit always seems to find a wa...