The eighth annual Paul Letarte Memorial Great Glen Invitational Cross Country Meet took place at the perfect venue and weather conditions for running, with the skies overcast and the temperatures in the upper 50s.
Twenty-one years ago, Paul, then the Berlin High School Cross Country Coach, had a vision of a cross-country meet surrounded by the New Hampshire White Mountain Range, with the races taking place on the well-groomed, challenging Great Glen Trails. Usually, when he put his mind to something, it happened. And it did.
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