A somber moment for all Blood fans to see her finish up at Oregon. Being a New Yorker I appreciated watching this girl walk into her first year in high school and just murder every miler in the state. For an old cross-country runner from Watertown to watch her run she stunned us all by dominating and owning the course record on the Van Cortlandt Park course in New York City. It was the Holy Grail for all of us. We just pictured the best girl runner we ever saw in any big race throughout the state, and Nicole Blood could beat her. That's the way it was not so long ago.