With warmer weather in the forecast Thursday and Friday, the Greene County High School track and field teams are hopeful of leaving the gymnasium and hallways behind for the all-weather track. Snow from earlier in the week has melted off the all-weather surface, but the field event areas still had some snow as of Tuesday. Boys’ head coach Dean Lansman told Raccoon Valley Radio what the athletes have been able to practice on indoors. “We’ve tried to do a lot of conditioning. We don’t have a lot of room, but we do have about 60 meter stretches on both sides of the hallway in the school that we can kind of pick up the pace a little bit. We’re doing speed work in the gym with parachutes and we’re doing some block work. That’s about all we can do inside. We’ve been able to do some handoffs, but you obviously can’t put four kids in a hallway, but we can work on handoffs in pairs. The throwers have indoor shots and discs, so they can get some form work done in the gym, but our throwing rings are all outdoors. We’re hopeful once we get outside we’ll be able to stay there and the cold and snowy weather is behind us.”

The Greene County teams both were snowed out of their own Early Bird meet in Jefferson on Monday of this week and both have meets on the schedule the next two days. The girls are scheduled for a meet in Audubon Thursday while the boys have the Winterset Husky Relays on their schedule for Friday.