This was Chase's 4th xc meet. Salem, UT (elev. 4,610) is a few miles north of Payson, UT, a town at the south end of Utah Valley. It was supposed to be a 5K but turned out to be a 5.06K.. We took SR-65 around the west side of Utah Lake to avoid the debacle they call highway travel through Utah County. It's about a 70mi drive from where we are in Salt Lake County. We got there 10 minutes before Chase's race, but the race was postponed because the girls running before them were still out on the track. Chase's group got going around 4:10am. The first runner across the line came in at 4:27:41. Chase finished at 4:29:29, in 16th place. There were about 150 boys in his race, 9th and 10th graders. As you can see below he and another fellow from Alta led the group for the 1st 1.5mi. The other Alta runner finished 10th. American Fork, ranked 2nd in the nation (I'm told) took the top 8 places. 9th place went to a kid from Salem Hills, the high school where the meet was held. We drove back north, again along SR-65, after Chase's race. He got home around 8:15pm.