Cross Country Thread

**LlamaYip** · Joined: 23 Dec 2008 Posts: 3151 Location: Chicago, IL

Well, a few weeks ago SAW4135 suggested to me that I should (or one of us) make a Cross Country thread, since it seems that Cross Country runners are abundant on ScoreHero, moreso than most other popular sports combined (except soccer/futbol, probably).

Anyways, I have not been running very long, this is only my second year of running and although last year, when I was embarrasingly bad, didn't go over too well, I've trained throughout the year and I've improved a ton (I'm looking for a 6 minute improvement on a 3 mile race this week) so I'm looking forward to being a big part of a solid Frosh-Soph team this fall.

What about everyone else?
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**blackhawk12** · Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 448 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

About time somebody made a thread for this

I've also only been running Cross for two years, but this will be my fourth year of Track, running distance, so I'm not a total stranger to it.

My PR last year was 18:27 for a 5k. Not as low of a time as I wanted, but pretty good for being my first year in CC. Also, I plateau'd waaaaayyyy too early on in the season, so when our coach cut our mileage, I didn't improve very much. As for our team, as a whole, I was 8th runner (just out of varsity racing position) and we swept our Conference and Sections, boys and girls, varsity and JV. Also, guys went to State for the first time in school history and took 8th, very good all things considered.

This year looks like an entirely different story, for me. We're knocking down tons of miles like it's nothing (last week I only ran five days and managed more than 60 miles) We're just starting our speed workouts, and our first 10-man meet is this coming Friday. We have been running workouts, for our 4-7th ranked runners, at about a 17 minute 5k pace, so it'll be interesting to see what happens as the season progresses, and if we'll be able to hold together the amazing things that started last year.
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**SAW4135** · Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 750 Location: Moline, IL

Actually considered making this thread, but I was gonna wait for after my meet tomorrow

It's a friendly meet, its all our conference teams, many of which we won't actually see until conference due to there being 3 Class 3A schools, 2 2A schools, and a 1A school.

Not sure what my goals are for this year yet, I had a big setback this summer with surgery on my appendix, but I have hopefully recovered enough to be our 3rd man on the team until we bring back a runner from injury.

I'll post tomorrow with my results from the meet. It's a 3x 1 mile loops, first time anyone has ever run this course. I'm hoping to open up with a low 17:00, we'll just see what happens though

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**alexhaz64** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 4480 Location: Long Beach, CA

yeah, I've noticed there are tons of runners on this site. I wonder why?

Anyway, I should probably start running again... haven't really seriously ran since high school, which was over 2 years ago. XD My best times were around 18:25 for 3 mile, 11:05 for 2 mile, and 5:05 for the mile. I was one of the slowest guys on the team, lmao. Still was a lot of fun, and met my best friends there. Good times.

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**FDXCpinballwiz** · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:38 pm Post subject:

Well I ran xc back in highschool, which I graduated last year and haven't run since lol.

My best 5k was an 18:27, best 2 mile was 11:02 and my best mile was a nice little 4:55. I love being a sub 5:00 miler lol. I also ran indoor and outdoor track...well that was until I got kicked off for saran wrapping a freshman >_> (apparently iniation isnt what it used to be)
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**GenericName** · Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 1630 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

All I have to say is.

WTF!?

All of you people would be really good at my school, and you are all like "lul 17:00 three mile, I suk". The best people on our team are running like 18:00s and at the most one guy is maybe getting less than 16:00... And we are in line to win state this year. Of course, Louisiana is apparently the second worst state at Cross country, and it's a 1A school, but... still.

My best time last year, my first year, was a 29:58. And that was a major accomplishment for me. My worst time was like 40:30. >____________> But that my was first race ever. So ehh. :/
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**FingerQuick** · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:39 pm Post subject:

I started running Cross Country during 9th grade last year. I was terrible

I got like a 28:xx on my first 5k but near the end of the season had about 22:xx (somewhere near 22:05 or something). This year I am lokking forward to breaking that 22:00 milestone and aim somewhere around 21:30.

Also, blackhawk, you live in Minnesota correct? Is the meet by any chance in Rosemount?
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**FreeXBird** · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 2485

I remember when I was 10 I had to run a mile. It took me 11 minutes. I hate running

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**augthebomb** · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 812 Location: Amherst, NY

I started running around 5th grade. I joined the XC team and I loved it. Placed 15th out of 200+ students in my second year (our first year meet was cancelled due to this big snow storm in October). I dislocated my knee at the beginning of 7th grade, and had to stop running - we found out that I had a knee problem, passed down from my mom's side. Time goes by, and my friend kicks me in the back of the knee (go figure). He broke a piece of my femur off and dislocated my knee. I just recently had surgery to fix the problem, and plan to start running again. This year will be my freshman year, and the competition gets tougher in HS. My endurance has decreased over the years where I was unable to run. Does anyone have any good tips to getting back your endurance?

tl;dr: I need tips for gaining endurance.

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**diddin** · Joined: 08 Mar 2008 Posts: 1688 Location: Evanston, IL

I personally don't run cross country (I'm horribly out of shape and running is one of my least favorite things), but my school was state champions last year and with nobody on the team graduating, we're bound for a repeat. We are also ranked 11th in the nation. So yeah, cross country is kind of a big deal where I live.