One of my high school top 10 times in the 5k is a 15:43, run at the CIF state meet in 1989. I was wondering how that compares to times nowadays. Is it the same course?
How long has the CIF state course been run at Woodward Park?
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same course same weather same terrain same everything. anyone who says otherwise is lying
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Since 1987.
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eshawty wrote:
One of my high school top 10 times in the 5k is a 15:43, run at the CIF state meet in 1989. I was wondering how that compares to times nowadays. Is it the same course?
So, the CA State Cross Country Meet has only been contested since the 1987 season(my junior year-we made it as team for my Junior and Senior years), and the CIF chosen course was Woodward Park to keep it in the middle of the state to make it fair for Northern and Southern Teams to travel.
Before that there was a Northern Section Championship Meet and a Southern Section Championship Meet and you had to speculate as to who was the actual best team in the state. The best individuals usually settled it a few weeks later at the West Kinney Regionals in the Seeded Section race.
Fun fact as I look at MileSplitCA, it has the meets listed as D1 D2 and D3, which were not the original divisions. If you can believe it, they were simply Large, Medium, and Small schools. They later added all the other divisions with numbers when my younger brothers were running.
As someone who ran the Clovis Meet during the regular season and the Kinney Meets after the season, I can tell you that for the most part the course usually covered the same ground, but sometimes from a different direction. I remember sometimes the back section being run from different directions. that means that sometimes the race was not run up the "big" hill. In recent years I think they just run the same course, but back in 85-89 I know they switched it around many times. If I am not mistaken, one year there was construction in the park that necessitated the change.
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13 Jeff Aschbrenner 12 California (San Ramon) 15:43
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5 Paul Goodrich 12 Dos Pueblos 15:43
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Super Cool Old School Fool wrote:
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13 Jeff Aschbrenner 12 California (San Ramon) 15:43
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2 Jace Aschbrenner 12 California (Newbury Park) 14:53
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Like father like son wrote:
Super Cool Old School Fool wrote:
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13 Jeff Aschbrenner 12 California (San Ramon) 15:43
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2 Jace Aschbrenner 12 California (Newbury Park) 14:53
Whoa that’s cool.
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