This morning (Saturday October 22, 2011) the third annual Area 6 Championship Invitation was held on a brisk fall morning at Masterson Station Park, here in Lexington Kentucky. For today’s meet there were six races, two for each level of competition (elementary 3k), middle (4k), high(5k). This meet was ran over a very new course that started near “tent-city”, went around the soccer fields, went through the “prison loop”, and finished against the dog park. This course was relatively hilly and for the 3 and 4 k’s was a little short. The weather for this meet could not have been any better being low to mid 50s for the varsity races and mid 40s to start the day, without a cloud in the sky.
The first race for the day was the girls’ elementary school race which was won by Waveney Brooks (10:35) a sixth grader from Lafayette. Brooks outkicked her teammate Kasey Fields (10:39) going up the last hill to pull off the victory. In third was Lucy Oldham (1...