2006 Galleries

FACA 2006 Senior All-Star XC Meet : SATURDAY MORNING, 18 November, at Miccosukee Greenway's Edenfield Road trailhead.
This annual event pits Florida HS seniors from North/South/East/West counties against one another after their FHSAA XC career has concluded. A really fun event to be associated with from any angle - runner, coach, parent, fan, or volunteer.

All photos, #1890-2382 (760MB+) have been uploaded.

Results, thanks to Godby Coach Chris Sumner:

http://www.milesplit.com/meet/20625

Many thanks to my photojournalist stand-in while I was on lead bike duty. Sickles Coach David Rittenour's friend, Coach Ladd Baldwin from Gaither HS, did the honors. Without Coach Baldwin, no photos!

Team uniforms were courtesy of Mr. Hank Steinbrenner. Thanks is not enough, Mr. Steinbrenner. I join the kids in thinking you really rock!

Team dinner from Olive Garden (courtesy Will & Kathy Anguish) with FSU Coach Bob Braman arranging and doing pickup/delivery duties. Coach Bob, the dinner and race isn't complete without your presence. Btw, where was Citron?

Many thanks to the FSU XC/T&F gang for assistance with course setup: Althea Belgrave, Wade Brett, Sean McManus, Joey Zins, Abby Day, Stuart Pearce.

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FACA 2006 Senior All-Star XC Meet

SATURDAY MORNING, 18 November, at Miccosukee Greenway's Edenfield Road ...

Updated: Nov 20, 2006 6:31am PST

2006 FHSAA Cross Country Finals : "Published with permission of FHSAA.  Reproduction of photographs for purposes other than personal entertainment is prohibited.  All rights reserved."

Photos 1183-1889 have been uploaded. Yes, that's about 700 shots. This is getting to be old news: It took my waxed string and tin can, world's slowest DSL connection (courtesy of the oxymoronically-named "SPRINT" - no wonder they changed the name to "Embarq") a loooong time to get this ~1GB of full resolution shots uploaded.

You may wish to change the gallery "STYLE" (top right) for easier viewing/locating all ~700 photos. Try "all thumbs" or "journal." When sifting through hundreds of photos, "all thumbs" works best for locating any individual shot. Thanks!

The much abused camera and lens gave me fits with its "now I'll work, now I won't" tantrums. Anyone got a Nikon D2Hs they want me to test drive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D2Hs
That, and the difficulty of dealing with a nearly 10 furlong loop to navigate made getting shots of everyone an impossible task. I had to leave as the Boys' 3A had run only ~1M. So I missed many shots that I wanted to get of our friends from those schools. Guess I could have missed the bus and pedaled the bike back to Tallahassee, right?

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2006 FHSAA Cross Country Finals

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Updated: Nov 12, 2006 2:19pm PST

City XC Championships : All of these photos are by Mary Swain, courtesy of Performance Video, LLC.

City XC Championships

All of these photos are by Mary Swain, courtesy of Performance Video, ...

Updated: Oct 25, 2006 3:36am PST

Everhart Owl Run 2006 : Photos 7637-8039 from the always awesome Gretchen Everhart School MS 2M Meet, 28 September.

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Everhart Owl Run 2006

Photos 7637-8039 from the always awesome Gretchen Everhart School MS 2 ...

Updated: Oct 11, 2006 10:48am PST

FSU XC Invite 2006 : SATURDAY, 7 October, Miccosukee Greenway Park.
A big bad (and I do mean bad) assortment of shots (#9312-9963) from the Men's 8K, Women's 5K, Boys' HS 5K, Girls' HS 5K, Male Open 5K, and Femme Open 5K.
It took a while for all 894MB to squeeze through my worthless Sprint DSL line.
Beautiful, dry, and relatively cool day at the park for the races. You could hear and feel the thunder from the runners' feet on the downhill.
Story, results:
http://seminoles.cstv.com/sports/c-xc/spec-rel/100706aae.html

More FSU XC Invite photos, by a real photographer:

http://www.andrewsphotogallery.com/gallery/1982449

Wanna Miccosukee Greenway XC course "every 50m" photo tour? How 'bout here:

http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/gallery/1970316

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FSU XC Invite 2006

SATURDAY, 7 October, Miccosukee Greenway Park. A big bad (and I do mea ...

Updated: Oct 08, 2006 7:35am PST

Leon County MS 2M XC Championship : THURSDAY, 5 October 2006 at the Miccosukee Greenway's Edenfield trailhead. The 3rd of three annual races contended by teams from Leon County Public Middle Schools. The Everhart Owl Run was #2 in this series:

http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/gallery/1943883

GPS track from 4 October 2007 race:

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4120265

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Leon County MS 2M XC Championship

THURSDAY, 5 October 2006 at the Miccosukee Greenway's Edenfield trailh ...

Updated: Oct 06, 2006 6:29pm PST

Flrunners.com 7 : Photos 8288-8610 from the 29 September 2006 XC action at Tampa's Ed Radice Park.

For easiest navigation, how 'bout switch the gallery "style" (top right) to "all thumbs."

I uploaded 'em before I even previewed what I shot. Good luck, right? Having looked at them now - uh, you guys just Photoshop what you want, ok?
Missed the ROC action (other than start line pre-race fun) and races before the College Women's.
Hope some of the mudpit photos came out ok.

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Photos 8288-8610 from the 29 September 2006 XC action at Tampa's Ed Ra ...

Updated: Oct 01, 2006 4:25am PST

Holy Comforter MS Meet #2 2006 : Photos 8087-8287 are from the 28 September Middle School 1.5M XC events at HCES. Look for one more meet at HCES October 10!
Raw "results photos" first up.
I'm hopelessly behind on any editing!

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Holy Comforter MS Meet #2 2006

Photos 8087-8287 are from the 28 September Middle School 1.5M XC event ...

Updated: Sep 29, 2006 1:48pm PST

Prefontaine XC 2006 : SATURDAY, 23 September, Silver Lake Recreation Area.
Viewing suggestion: Set the gallery "style" (top-right) to "all thumbs."
5k HS event (shown), 1.5M+ MS race (got photos you'd like me to post?), 5k community race (most HS/MS posted). I also have community race photos - not posted.
Apologies for getting just the boring finish line photos. On this course I was too cowardly to hold the camera in one hand while leading the races on the Pugsley, pedaling up the ravine hill, over the log hops, etc.

COURSE RECORD?
This year's course produced the fastest Prefontaine times I could document. (I checked "Fleet Foot" newsletters back through 1978.) Joseph Franklin won the HS 5k in 16:46, with Tyler Price close behind in 16:51. Gary Droze won the Open 5k in 17:24. I don't think we've had anyone run a Prefontaine race as fast as Gary's time since 1995, when he was credited with a 17:12, beating David Ogletree (17:28) and John Otterson (17:36). All-time best I could find was Tim Simpkins' 16:51 from 1985. Franklin takes that one down, with Price equalling it.

Results:
http://www.maclayrunners.com/2006PreGirlsResults.html

http://www.maclayrunners.com/2006PreBoysResults.html

http://www.maclayrunners.com/2006PreOpenResults.html

What an awesome race, huh? The new compact two-loop course really helps keep the spectators interested in the race.
100+ photo course tour here:
http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/gallery/1909847
How 'bout a shoutout to Jeff Nielsen and Gary Droze, the brains behind this event. The pushup contest keeps getting better. Girls' and Boys' divisions now. Photos below, near the end of the gallery.
Thanks to Sherry and Sonny (the Park management) for all of their efforts as well. What nice folks.
Let's do it again!

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Prefontaine XC 2006

SATURDAY, 23 September, Silver Lake Recreation Area. Viewing suggestio ...

Updated: Sep 24, 2006 3:41am PST

Holy Comforter MS Meet #1 2006 : Photos 6952-7127 are from the 14 September Middle School 1.5M XC events at HCES. Remember, we're back here at HCES 28 September. Our kids have asked for a race here in October, as well.
New Holy Comforter 1.5M course photo tour posted here:
http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/gallery/1967589
Viewing suggestion: set the gallery "style" (top-right of this page) to "all thumbs." It'll make navigating the photos easier. Then click thumbnails for easier viewing. Download whatever you like, original resolution "O" suggested.
A huge THANK YOU to HCES Coach L.A. Hanlon and the rest of the awesome Holy Comforter crew.
First up, the 14 Sept races.

By all means, feel free to send me names of the runners. I'll post whatever positive ID the parents/coaches send me.
jk
p.s. Hey turkey! I'm still here!
p.p.s. My scoring:
GIRLS
Places dropped from scoring (NTS): 2/8/9/10/13/18/20/24/25/26/28/29/31
29 - Maclay
42 - Fl High
51 - Magnolia
NTS - Cornerstone
NTS - Grand Ridge
NTS - HCES
NTS - NFC
NTS - Trinity
 
BOYS
Places dropped from scoring (NTS): 4/11/18/19/24/30/31/34/38/40
22 - Maclay
66 - Grand Ridge
87 - Fl High
89 - HCES
130 - Magnolia
NTS - CCS
NTS - Cornerstone
NTS - HCES
NTS - Trinity

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Holy Comforter MS Meet #1 2006

Photos 6952-7127 are from the 14 September Middle School 1.5M XC event ...

Updated: Sep 19, 2006 4:12am PST

Cross Country 2006 : THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given.
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A mix of orphan shots, till I figure a better way.
Starting off, awards photos from after the 16 September Godby "Cougar XC Challenge."

Cross Country 2006

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Updated: Sep 17, 2006 5:32am PST