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Run for Your Life — Prep teams will haunt the course on Halloween Week

Don Schaplow for Blast Zone Media

Winlock's Natalie Cardenas Hernandez (left) and Victoria Sancho (right) keep an edge on Adna’s Megan Price during the C2BL Championships on Thursday, Oct. 24 in Onalaska. — Zach Martin, The Chronicle

Haunted Edition

Running shoes can provide a competitive advantage around Halloween when trick-or-treaters and cross cross country teams are looking to get a leg up in their respective races. — Courtesy of Don Schaplow

A wet, windy final week of October ushers in scary tales of postseason qualifying meets for our area runners and their respective high school cross country teams. With District meets brewing, limited berths to the State meet will be the most coveted treats, so let’s go door to door around the Blast Zone to see who might wind up running away with the candy sack.

The reward for the fastest runners, and most complete teams, will be trips to the State Championship Meet at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco on Nov. 9.

3A bi-District 3-4 Championships

Chambers Bay Golf Club, Saturday, Nov. 2, 12:50 PM