Great Meadow or Green Hill Park? Which course was faster or slower for the VHSL State Cross Country Championships?
With the change to having the state cross country championships broken up from being at once site at Great Meadow since 1994 to going to two sites with classes 1-3 at Green Hill Park in Salem and classes 4-6 remaining at Great Meadow in The Plains, it leaves two big questions after all the results came in yesterday.
Which course is faster?
What is the time difference between the two courses?
We have attempted to figure out the answers to those questions by taking the season best 5K times of all the runners who ran at both VHSL State Cross Country Championship courses yesterday and comparing it to their state meet times run.
Below is the data.
What we discovered? On average, boys runners at Green Hill Park ran 5.69 seconds faster at the state meet than th...
