One finish line, another starting line

The beauty and the curse of our sport is that, other than summer, we do not have much of an “off season,” as other sports do. So with the conclusion of cross country at the IC4A/ECAC meet last Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park comes the start of our indoor track season. Our first meet is next Saturday, December 1, at Ocean Breeze, hosted by our good friend Nick McDonough. So this brief Thanksgiving week break is nice, but we get right back to work on Monday for the beginning of the track season, which features two December meets – Fastrack at Ocean Breeze on Dec. 1 and the Yale Season Opener on Dec. 8. Yes, we have a several weeks’ break around the holidays, but then the season resumes in earnest in January, and continues more or less unabated until the end of the outdoor track season in mid to late May. Thanks to Dawn Collins, mom of sophomore Hayley Collins, for sharing this photo of our pack on men charging toward the finish line at Vanny – the final finish line of cross country, followed closely by the first starting line of indoor track.