In a season that will be remembered for its many rainy meets, it is only fitting that this District Championship would be held with a backdrop of stormy weather. Far beyond the annoyance of wet uniforms and slippery footing--not to mention fogged-over lenses and shorted-out digital cameras--necessity turned this lightning-delayed meet from its prelims/finals, place-over-time format into a time-over-place (who needs prelims?) race to the regionals.
Scheduled to begin at 1 PM with the 4 X 800, followed, concurrently, by the field events, the steamy, sun-fried sky slowly gave way to an invasion of fearsome-looking storm clouds. What can you expect? Orlando straddles that great convective causeway of Gulf-ified air masses, I-4 (sometimes confused with a rating of its contribution of west-to-east tornadoes, and tropical low pressure systems, rather than its intended designation as an interstate highway), and its steady traffic of cumulonimbus clouds speeding past in the eastbound lanes.
At pr...