The District 8-A Track & Field Championships will get off to the races on Thursday at Sands High School.This meet was scheduled to be held at Welch but with the Dawson Dragons’ new track still in the process of being completed it has been moved to Ackerly.“We’re grateful to the good people at Sands for picking this up and being willing to host it at their place,” Dawson Superintendent Gary Jones said.The meet starts at 9:15 a.m. with the 3,200 meter run as a finals event. The pre-lims in the rest of the running events will start at 10 a.m.