Bolles and Plant visit Tallahassee, leave with the Big Bend
Herb Wills, August 31, 2019It isn’t every Saturday that there’s a major invitational cross-country meet in Tallahassee with hundreds of runners, many from out of town or even from out of state. It isn’t every Saturday, but sometimes it seems that way. On the last Saturday of August the event in question was the Big Bend Invitational, and here’s what happened.
Bolles and Plant visit Tallahassee, leave with the Big Bend
Cross-Country titles
And here are several hundred photos of the several hundred athletes
who raced at Apalachee Regional Park in the Big Bend Invitational:
HS Girls’ 5K:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10114178382814033
HS Boys’ 5K:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10114179161224093
MS Girls’ 3K:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10114179478872523
MS Boys’ 3K:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10114179658836873
Smooth trails!
Herb Wills, hwills@gmail.com
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/
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