4A state cross country champion Penelope Sosa of Miami Coral Park was challenged for the lead in the silver girls' race at the RunningLane Championships and the result was dropping 24 seconds off her prior personal best with a 17:47 third-place finish in Huntsville, Alabama. She continued to only get stronger as the season went on after missing the first month of the season and races due to the coronavirus.
Take a look at a time comparison of Florida runners with their times run on Saturday at Garmin RunningLane Champs compared to their prior 2021 cross country season best 5K times. A lot of discussion with the course at John Hunt Park in Huntsville being short, yet many runners have GPS watches over the 3.1 mile (5K) distance and some wheeling the course long, short, or right at the 3.1 mile distance.
On average, Florida boys ran actually 0.70 seconds slower than their prior season-best times in the 2021 fall season and the median time is 10 seconds faster. On average, Florida gi...
