baraboo boys cross country unofficial webpage
lets rewind a bit over a decade. there i am, a scrawny, awkward, high school freshman beginning my time on the baraboo boys cross country team. running was HUGE to me in high school and i’ve written a few times about it before1.
the thunderbirds were a team with “a tradition of excellence” as we liked to say. we consistently wiped the floor with the competition at our conference championships and always were a top contender at sectionals. one thing that made us great was coach arndt. the guy was “TUFF”. i’m sure you can imagine what kind of motivation it is to have your coach, a man 30 years older than you, running right next to you and often BEATING you during practice. i remember how at some point during almost every workout, coach would start dry heaving. we all knew what that meant. as soon as he was done, he would make some comment about how he needed to quit eating the those frito lays for lunch and then he would pick up the pace! the dry heaves meant it was time to suck it up and move.
another huge reason for our team’s success was how much fun we had. especially for my first two years, the varsity team was VERY tight knit. we were really great friends. kendall mcfarland was the team captain my freshman season (1998). he started the baraboo boys cross country unofficial webpage as a place to post pictures and race results. when kendall graduated, he past on the responsibility to me. unfortunately i let the site die, and by the time i graduated, no one was interested in keeping it up to date.
so it languished, one of those sites on angelfire.com that hadn’t been touched in years. when i got back from my mission in 2004, i had of course completely forgotten the administrator’s password and i no longer had access to the email account that was assigned to the account. i knew that there were a number of pictures stored on the account that were not even linked from the page, so i thought it was really unfortunate i couldn’t access it.
well, a little while ago i thought maybe the people at angelfire.com would have mercy on me, so i contacted them with as much information as i could to see if they would give me the admin password. miracle of miracles, they did!
over the years angelfire decided to encumber the freely hosted web pages with tons of banner ads and popups, so i’ve decided to remove the site from its original location (www.angelfire.com/wi/baraboocc) and archive it on my host. the new web page is:
http://www.iambismark.net/baraboocc/.
everything is basically the way i left it when i last touched the site in 2000. the hit counter sadly stopped working so i removed that. and we used to have a message board. i remember stupid debates on there with runners from other teams, etc. sadly that was hosted somewhere else and is now gone, so i removed the dead link. however the guestbook is still intact, which is fun. actually there are a lot of orphaned html pages that i probably ought to link up somehow, though i am loathe to change the page much further for historical value (not the mention that the html is essentially unreadable). anyway, enjoy this little slice of the past written in frontpage 98.