Winning an event at the state championship track and field meet is quite a feat.

Setting a state record in your event is historic.

Taking four first places at the state meet, and setting three state records, is awe-inspiring.

That is exactly what Messalonskee's Jesse Labreck did at the Class A state track meet in Windham last weekend. She won the 100-meter hurdles, the 300-meter hurdles, the long jump and the triple jump. She set state records in everything but the 300 hurdles.

It was the kind of dominant performance that sports writers will recite 50 years from now. Bravo.

Let's not overlook one of Labreck's rivals, Bethany Dumas of Cony. She made history, too, with her fourth straight pole vault title and third straight javelin championship. Dumas finished fifth in the 100 hurdles and second in the 300 hurdles -- a final won by Labreck, but that had Dumas closing at the tape.

We so admire these two young women that we're tempted to dust off our blue and yellow, Nike waffle running shoes that have been gathering dust in a closet since 1980 or so. But we'd be slow and we'd feel pain.

Pass the doughnuts.