Patrick Gregory

The annual Trinity/Valkyrie Invitational starts tonight with the Middle School and Elementary races which will have 1500 plus runners cruising around Tom Sawyer Park.  The big action begins tomorrow morning with the high school action as several of the best teams in the nation compete head to head.  Let's take a look at some of the best runners and teams from multiple states competing tomorrow:

Unlike the other two classes this year, AAA brings back its individual champion in Chase Geary of Muhlenberg County.  There is no question he is still a threat to repeat, but he faces possibility the most depth of top talent in AAA in many years. Let's take a look at who is out there in Class AAA.

The 4th installment of the Kentucky Dream Mile will take place this evening at St. Xavier High School in Louisville. Both winners from last year are back to defend their titles. The action will get started at 8 PM.

The 4th Edition of the Kentucky Dream Mile will be held this Friday evening at St. Xavier High School.

Jacob Thomson, senior at Holy Cross and Patrick Gregory, junior at Butler will run in the 3200m Run at the Arcadia Invitational in California tonight.

The annual UK High School Invitational will take place tomorrow in Lexington. Typically multiple new US #1's are set in this event with tremendous talent in attendance.  Below are some of the top athletes and events to look out for.

Big Saturday of action for Kentucky.

Track is BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The annual big opening meet, the Wildcat Classic held at Nutter Fieldhouse at the University of Kentucky is scheduled to run this weekend.  In a little bit of a new twist, you could say the meet is ready to jump out as well as they are bringing in field events as well for the first time in quite a while. Let's take a look at the favorites in each of areas (Sprints, Distance, Relays, Jumps, Throws)

Below is the Top 12 Moments/Races of 2012.  This past year was quite arguably the greatest year in XC/Track history for the state.  Records were set across the board in track and XC.  KYtrackXC.com has sorted through some of the moments/races that really set the state on fire in a sense in 2012.

Assumption/St. Xavier Win Nike Cross Nationals & Thomson Qualifies for Foot Locker Nationals

  Tomorrow brings the running world in Kentucky two huge races both being held miles away in North Carolina.  Foot Locker South sees Kentucky potentially having its first back to back national qualifier with Jacob Thomson.  Nike Cross Southeast has Assumption back in a spot to qualify again after becoming the first Kentucky girls team ever last year.  St. Xavier is also the same potential spot looking at their second trip to Portland (made NXN in 2005, before Regional Qualifying.)  Regardless of what actually happens this day just like the whole year, it will be one that shows Kentucky is on the move up . 

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It’s always a good insight on both sides to be able to see how the races play out and teams stack up in the pecking order when the small schools are separated from the large schools at the Lexington Catholic Invitational. It’s as close as we will get to a preview of the state meet and it makes for great races all day long.

  This past weekend was strange, there were a ton of meets but nothing was really huge.  There were some quality match-ups but even that was hard to decipher as many schools were missing runners.  Fall break is part of it, minor injuries, and just simply being tired from all the racing over the last seven weeks.  Here are some of the things that stuck out to me from this past week.

Tates Creek Invitational Breakdown

Amy-Eloise Neale was the top story in the Northwest but there was much happening around the nation of note as well.

Video Preview of the top runners and team at the Trinity Invitational

  With the inland rains of hurricane Isaac looming over the Midwest, and already causing havoc for Cross Country in the Western portion of Kentucky, I was wondering how much of a factor the weather was going to play into today’s race. However, as I stepped out of my car and onto the course, the sun was covered by non-threatening clouds and the temperature was hanging around the upper 70s, a beautiful day for racing.

The Shelby County Invitational is annually one of the best meets of this weekend pulling several Louisville schools.  The only question is will these schools actually run their full squads.

22 Thoughts on what stuck out from each class from over the weekend.  

2 Video's on Class AAA Boys