Athlete of the Week - Megan Metcalfe

The AotW for July 27th - August 2nd is Megan Metcalfe. Megan raced at the Debbie Green Memorial 5K on Saturday night and was the second overall female in a time of 16:08. Megan appears to be back on track to have a good late-summer track season. She is supposed to race in Gateshead (3,000m) on the 31st and in Brussells (5,000m) on September 4th. After a slew of health issues, hopefully Megan can still turn out a solid 2009. Good job to all the road runners out there this weekend, it was full of action.

*****Editorial*****
Today is August 3rd. High school cross country practice starts today and all the kids are busy handing in physicals, getting lectured about the evils of hazing and plotting the hazing that they're going to do anyways. One thing that may happen, depending on the athlete and the coach, is the formulation of goals for this season. Let me beg and plead with the fairer sex of this state, their parents and coaches: please include Foot Locker South in your plans. The last West Virginian girl to run the seeded race was in 2006. This is the most intense, fastest and highly competitive high school race that any WV kid can enter. You will be a better runner for experiencing it. Please make at least an attempt to run this race.