To get a sense of the level of competition and figure out which meet was better and which track was faster, we’ve combined the results of the concurrent Indoor Championships to settle the debate. We scored the top 5 finishers in each race, just like in a Cross Country race. Here are the results!
| Boys | Nike: | 24 | NB: | 31 |
NB beats Nike 31-24.
| Place | Meet | Name | Time | Points |
| 1 | Nike | Clayton Stoil | 6:47.37 | 10 |
| 2 | NB | Rowan McDonald | 7:12.96 | 9 |
| 3 | Nike | Colin Graham | 7:43.01 | 8 |
| 4 | NB | Kodi Quimby | 7:50.03 | 7 |
| 5 | NB | Carter Butterfield | 7:54.48 | 6 |
| 6 | NB | Lucien Beardsley | 7:56.62 | 5 |
| 7 | NB | William Soberiaj | 8:42.08 | 4 |
| 8 | Nike | Matt Brow | 9:01.35 | 3 |
| 9 | Nike | Tyler Swint | 9:01.86 | 2 |
| 10 | Nike | Owen Stachlik | 9:17.21 | 1 |
| Girls | Nike: | 20 | NB: | 35 |
NB beats Nike 35-20.
| Place | Meet | Name | Time | Points |
| 1 | Nike | Talia Green | 7:14.05 | 10 |
| 2 | NB | Madison Morgan | 7:17.28 | 9 |
| 3 | NB | Ashlyn Poulin | 7:27.96 | 8 |
| 4 | NB | Desi Dubois | 7:33.56 | 7 |
| 5 | NB | Abby Callinan | 7:33.65 | 6 |
| 6 | NB | Alexa Governor | 7:33.85 | 5 |
| 7 | Nike | Farrah Wengler | 7:54.87 | 4 |
| 8 | Nike | Samantha Benson-Tyler | 7:55.36 | 3 |
| 9 | Nike | Maya Judice | 8:15.77 | 2 |
| 10 | Nike | Rachel Lawson | 8:21.28 | 1 |
NB beats Nike in both races individually and by a combined score of 66-44.
What’s the takeaway? The vast majority of top NY & Maine athletes went to NB instead of Nike this year. This made for extremely unbalanced fields, heaving favoring the races in Boston over New York City. It would be best for Race Walking if both meets went back to the previous arrangement in scheduling where they alternated which day the event was held to allow the athletes to double. This always produced superior performances in both meets and for some electrifying competition on the track.
