Flashes of Panic

No, no, I’m not talking about this game. We don’t worry about football in the circles I travel in.

I’m talking about this race. It’s an entirely foreign feeling for me, hearing about it; the year I ran best in that race (and was Amherst’s first finisher) we were the last team with enough runners to compile a team score. A lot has changed since then, both for the College and for New England Division 3 as a whole; there are teams in that listing which didn’t bother to run ten years ago.

Things have changed even more in this race, given that the same year the men finished last, if I recall correctly, we didn’t have five women to score. But those changes have been around for a while, and a fifty-six point victory reflects dominance, not a close match that tipped our direction.

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