Track and Field Metro Championships promise plenty of drama
It’s taken until May, but the metro area will finally have its first Gianna Rahmer sighting of the outdoor track season on Friday. The Eldorado High superstar runner hasn’t competed in any outdoor events locally since the start of the prep track and field season. She competed in one meet in Clovis, and she competed in another meet last weekend in Santa Fe.
She has been nursing injuries relating to her hip and back, and her return to competition has been deliberately slow and gradual. She was a noticeable absentee at last weekend’s Richard Harper Memorial meet at Albuquerque Academy, but for good reason. Rahmer, a multiple state champion on the track and in cross country, wasn’t qualified.
The time in the 3,200-meter run (her best event) she posted in Clovis was not enough to get her into the Harper — or even this week’s Albuquerque Metro Championships, which begin on Thursday. She did not press the pace in Clovis, as it was her first run of the spring. Hence, she won’t be running the 3,200 at metros this week.
But she will be running the 1,600 on Friday, at around 6 p. m. at Nusenda Community Stadium.
She qualified with her time at the St. Michael’s meet last Saturday. She is listed as the top seed in the 1,600 at metros, just ahead of Albuquerque Academy’s Anna Hastings.