17 mph winds at state high school meet in Nebraska today

And of course, there could be some stud freshman coming into Millard West, like Seth Hirsch 2.0

We put 4 in the top 10 my entire senior season, but had a high-18 fifth man. You might imagine how that went for us.

Colorado wusses out.

denverpost.com

Day 2 of CHSAA state track meet postponed due to inclement weather

Kyle Newman

After a couple weeks of nice May weather, Mother Nature decided to step in and interfere with CHSAA’s spring championships.

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Class C 3200

Carson Noecker
Hartington CC 1st
9:16.05

Watch for Carson to take the 800 and 1600 as well.

Scratch that, Carson ran on the 4x800 team today, which won. He's on top of the heat sheet for Saturday's 1600.

Hinrichs ran 15:00:00 both at the Eastbay and the Heartland region race.

Sad that he did not run RunningLane.

Newbury Park had their whole varsity break 15 minutes. No reason he would not have done it either.

This season has sucked for the most part, the worst wind I ever remember having in Colorado during the spring. We had one meet this season with 60 mph wind gusts, the high jump pit was lifting 2-3 feet off the ground while the kids were trying to jump. We lost 4 meets on our schedule because of the wind, winds over 30 mph and no one wants to put a $10,000 FinishLynx system up, we saw at least one get broken this season anyway when they thought it was safe enough. And now this ridiculous weather for our state championships.

There's an obvious solution to this, we experienced it last year in Colorado because of Covid...push the spring sports season back another 2-3 weeks and have the state championships in June. Most high schools have already had graduation at this point, what's the big hurry? Let these kids have a few weeks of nice weather to finish their season where they aren't stressing out about the end of their school year.

Carson won the 1600 by a ton in 4:19.61, which given his 800 split in the relay (faster than the winning open time), he all but tripled.

Keep an eye on this junior.

Boooohooo! “An awful lot of you have no idea”. I guess my 2018 state track meet in Oklahoma with 80+ Fahrenheit and 25+ mph winds (30+ mph gusts) really pales in comparison to these eXtrEMe 17 mph winds. The 3200 went out so slow bc everyone wanted protection from the wind that the champion won with a 54.x.(granted times were super slow) completely ruining the chances of any slow twitch boy like me

That's not strong wind conditions.

Whoa. I feel bad about complaining about the Birmingham weather now! Snow at the end of May!

The Colorado 4A Boys 3200 was something to behold.

Snowbanks piled all over the infield.

Connor McCormick of Longmont with a bit of an upset, closing with a 2:03 en route to a 9:03.83 at 5400'.

3 guys under the old state meet record of 9:05.89.

Zane Bergen, last year's winner, was 4th in 9:06.80. He closed in a 2:06.

Cheyenne Mountain placed 4 in the top 8 - 9:05, 9:05, 9:13, and 9:15. Tinman calculator estimates the sea level equivalents to be 8:46, 8:46, 8:54, 8:56.

CO State Meet Day 2 Results

Yup, Cheyenne Mountain is clearly the best team in the nation that’s not Newbury Park

I deal. Have you it been checking out Colorado high school meet results?every meet up to 35 wind readings

I was coaching at a meet last year in North Dakota where the winds were holding steady in the 15-20mph range with gusts around 30mph, but because it was finally sunny and in the 50s, the meet director at the coaches meeting said "I'm sure glad we finally have some nice weather" and everyone nodded in agreement. This post is a joke.

That's nothing compared to what we put up with in PA. We didn't have the May snow like some other states but the wind gusted heavily every single day. That's the thing about the northeast. Precipitation is either blowing in or blowing out.

And to think PA is nowhere near the top ten, or 20, windiest states.

The wind always blows in Nebraska. It could have been much worse.

This doesn't compare to the other bad weather stories in this thread, but it is a weather oddity. The California state meet, which is known for high heat, and not high winds, is projected to start Saturday finals with a temp of 86 degrees (relatively mild) but 16 MPH winds (relatively very high). But if they held it on Weds, it would be a more typical state meet day, with temp at 6 PM at 100 degrees but winds only 3 MPH. If you were a 1600m runner, which would you prefer, 86D+16MPHW, or 100D+3MPHW? For those who haven't had the "joy" of running a race in 100 Deg heat when it is has been 100+ all day, it is tough. Your strength feels sapped even before the race starts. But 16MPH winds (gusts up to 20) really wears you down. I spent my whole life in socal, so I think I could handle the heat better, but others may be mentally able to handle the wind better.