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lapping the elementary school, a course as boring as it is flat.
“The course is flat and that presents a problem,” said Spieker, whose 1984 team finished second in the Bull Run District, fifth at the Region B meet and eighth in Group A. “When the team travels to other schools that have steep hills on their courses, we can’t climb them.”
Which also marks a very definite change in the makeup of the Rappahannock runners, where the ability to run well on hilly courses has been a trademark for years.
Another new look on the team is the absence of three of the team’s top four runners from a year ago. However, as Spieker said, “There is always someone coming along to replace them.”
And with 20 runners on the boys’ teams — and eight on a girls’ team that this year competes formally for the first time — the odds of finding
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