
Many of the same teams and individuals who lit up the 3A state race last fall will be back for this year's 4A state race. Photo by Alan Versaw.
With this article, we begin our New Mexico cross country previews for 2014. We begin with 4A boys and will continue this series through both genders of every classification, with a new preview appearing every few days. We hope you enjoy it
We look first at the virtual meet results for the returning runners for each school from 2013 (5K only) results. Next, we look at cross country scoring based on 1600 times and, finally, cross country scoring based on 3200 times from this past spring. These latter two analyses are necessarily based on scoring four instead of five due to the fact that most track distance programs are run with a little less depth than cross country programs. Note that, even with scoring only four runners per school for 3200 times, we still only have eight teams that have the four returning runners to make a scori...