SERIES OF CROSS-COUNTRY CONDITIONING RUNS TO BEGIN.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. -- The Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Summer All-Comers Cross-Country Series will kick off its 31st annual series of meets Thursday evening at Pelona Vista Park in southwest Palmdale. An Antelope Valley distance runners' tradition since 1975, the seven-week series of cross-country meets is staged by the High Desert Runners, the Antelope antelope, name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the sheep and goats. The North American pronghorn is sometimes called an antelope, but belongs to a separate, related family (Antilocapridae). Valley's distance running club. Primarily intended to assist with conditioning for high school and college runners who will be running with their school cross-country teams in the fall, the meets are open to runners of any age. This year's series will feature seven meets on Thursday evenings through Aug. 10. With the exception of the sixth meet on Aug. 3, both one- and three-mile runs will be held each meet, with the mile prelim beginning at 6:30 p.m. and the main three-mile race following about 15 to 20 minutes later. Registration begins at 6 p.m. near the vending machine vending machine, coin-operated, automatic device for selling goods. Many vending machines are capable of making change, and some of the more sophisticated ones accept paper money or credit cards. area on the park's north soccer field complex, on Tierra Subida Road at Rayburn Road. The courses are mostly on dirt and are primarily within the undeveloped settling basin A settling basin, settling pond or decant pond is a place where very fine particles from water are removed by means of gravity. The dirty water enters the basin at one end and the cleaner water is taken out at the other end by decanting. area of the park. The sixth meet in the series Aug. 3 will feature a single three-mile coed relay, with two or three runners of both sexes running one- mile segments. Awards will be presented after the final meet Aug. 10 to the top three runners in each age group who have run at least three of the six preliminary meets. Donations of at least $1 per runner per meet are accepted to help offset costs Costs for which funds have been appropriated but will not be obligated because of a contingency operation. See also contingency operation. of staging the series, paying for awards, and funding the club's Triple A awards presented to outstanding local high school cross-country runners at the end of their fall season. |
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