Fall Preview: Eagles open at Great Glen on Saturday

CONWAY — One more week. That’s what Bernie Livingston, head coach of the Kennett High boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams, would like to see added to an ideal preseason calendar. Four weeks is what it takes to get athletes through a successful preseason and up to speed to put their best feet forward in the meets that count.

“Ideally, in my perfect world,” said a smiling Livingston, who enters his 39th season at the helm of the cross-country program at KHS, “I’d like to open the first week with a mile time trial; hill running in the second week, the annual Kennett Challenge 2.2-mile run at the Kennett Middle School the third week, and then ease into the first race during the fourth week. I guess we’re all in the same boat. Some of the schools actually started racing last week, which I think is just too early.