DO IT FOR THE STORY Any meet that ends with a tractor pull must have a good story to go with it. Many of our club mottos and scheduling routines were put to the test. The community carried the day. The team learned the value of resilience and community. Expect the Unexpected On the externalities of the meet, the event was a combination of the memorable features of previous JO XC nationals: the snow , rain and mud of Tallahassee and Reno, the San Antonio single lane access parking, the van art of Madison , the shift in weather of ABQ , and the energy of multiple teams experienced in Myrtle Beach and Madison. To this soup, we added a visit to the Eiffel Tower that included a talk with the mayor of Paris, a late night homecoming of KY state troopers, a 2:30 AM tornado warning that was "downgraded" to a severe T-Storm Warning, and vans stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Kentucky. It is beyond the scope of this report to determine the...