Imagining a better Wisconsin day for a footrace might be impossible. Cool, calm, dry with a warming sun, we feel vitamin D synthesizing in our skin. The Blackhawk golf course appears groomed and ready to accept some of the fastest runners in the state. The Alternate Fall Cross Country Championship survived COVID, and our NGM boys and girls survived a sectional of big D2 and D1 schools to qualify in lane seven.

"Run your own race" reminds girl's Captain Dayna Karls. The gals biggest challenge is, in fact, not going out with the first two dozen runners from big schools like Middleton, Mad...