Saratoga Boy's Cross Country Team
12/04/2005
It was a mud bath at Portland Meadows. Precious few steps were not in water or shoe-sucking mud. Ironically, the Camelbacks, a short series of hills installed to keep the flat course from being a speedway, were the easiest part of the course today as a cover of wood chips made the hills dry. Most runners were 1-2 minutes slower than normal. And yet, most runners and fans said, "This is real cross country." A Willmar MN runner spoke for all the runners when he said, "It's so good to be muddy and cold HERE than to be warm and comfortable someplace else. This experience is.........the ULTIMATE for a cross country runner.

The Saratoga team proved that they are the best in the nation even under the worst conditions.

We salute Saratoga Boy's XC Team as the BreakThru athlete's of the week.
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