Clayson Shumway awakens a few echoes out of Liberty's storied past by winning the Cheyenne Mountain Stampede 5A boys race. Photo by Alan Versaw.
The Cheyenne Mountain Stampede, 2012 edition, showcased for us a new state course, but it showcased much more than that before the books were closed on the day's races.
Before reviewing in length what we learned about the teams, let's take a moment to review what it revealed about the course. It's a course we're all going to deal with in late October.
We learned that the approach to the stream crossing was better than we dared to hope. The new, angled-in approach constitutes a huge improvement over the former right-angle turn directly above the crossing. To be sure, some concerns about the capacity of the trail to handle the 30 teams expected in the 4A races at state remain (those concerns are probably more properly the domain of CHSAA than of Cheyenne Mountain at this point, but the concerns are there nevertheless), ...
