what the medal stand

today ,we will know about the meaning of the medal in kelly opinions .the following is follow her words.

When I started running 15 years ago, I would have never guessed high school cross-country would become what it is now.I was a bookish 14 year-old with no previous demonstration of athletic potential prior to an outdoor science class project in eighth grade (that’s another story for another day), completely clueless about all things shoes and workout schedules. That is, until I started training with my former marathon runner dad the summer before starting high school, all the while frequently considering quitting. I remember being the only freshman in my high school’s program — a small 1A school in eastern North Carolina where most people joined cross-country to socialize and get out of class early on meet days — and how happy I was to reach my one and only state meet my junior year. The first copy of Youth Runner magazine I saw featured Alan Webb on the cover, and I was vaguely aware of Foot Locker Regionals and Nationals.High school runner Marlowe believed you had to come from highly touted running havens like Oregon, California, Texas or New York to even have a fighting chance of competing in elite races, and reading about such races and athletes required much more effort then. Athletic.net and RunnerSpace.com were still a few years away from making their debut, the multimedia abundant websites DyeStat and MileSplit of today were simply dreams back then and I consumed most of my running reading material in hard copy form due to spotty dial-up Internet.

On a more local level, we’ve gone from seeing a handful of girls run times in the low 18s in Idaho within the last seven seasons to 10 girls breaking the 18-minute barrier this season and boys going from sub-15:40 times to sub-15:20. Those times landed several Idaho teams and individuals into the national spotlight this season — the Boise girls, the Eagle girls, the Idaho Falls boys, the Rocky Mountain boys, Twin Falls’ Mattalyn Geddes, Mountain View’s Lexy Halladay, Borah's Nathan Green, Bishop Kelly’s Nick Russell and District 6 runners Stetson Moss of Thunder Ridge and Zach Erikson of Idaho Falls. The Boise girls, Eagle’s Ashley LaJocies, Green, Geddes and Moss concluded their seasons Saturday at NXN, and Halladay, Russell and Erikson compete this weekend at Foot Locker Nationals.

What an honor and a privilege it has been to watch my old sport redefine the norms, and to witness Idaho contribute to those accolades this season.