This years cross country went off pretty well if you ask Harrisburg cross country runner Alexander Auch, If you ask him he will tell you that his favorite part of the season was watching his teammates improve and grow as a better runner and placing top 10 in just about every race and getting first in Brookings with a time of 16:40.66 and getting second as a team. Alex isn 't sure yet what he will do running wise after High School but he says if he get the opportunity to run in college he will take it and run with it. He will also say that he is exited for next year and looking forward to it he was been running all winter inside and out and don 't be surprised when you see him in the summer out there because the Harrisburg team has a summer
Cross country, or XC, and track may deal with running, but they each will have different mileage. While cross country deals with one person running one race, track involves a person competing in numerous events. Cross country is a running sport that has a total distance of three point one miles; however, the track distance can range from the 100 meter dash to the two mile run. That is a significant factor when it comes to the location of the race. As a result, the two sports will compete on
In 7th grade I got so close at the end of the season and ran a 5:01 mile. I got there because of good coaches to help me a long way but I didn’t work as hard as I could have Getting close
The races in cross country are generally run on trails and in fields. Cross country races can include trails, hills, stream crossings, roads, and more. The races can consist of multiple loops or one large loop and the start and finish do not need to be in
Speeding up At the beginning of the cross country season I hated cross country absolutely hated it, I would walk down the hallway of saline middle school look at all of the pictures on the wall and saw some of kids running and thought why is My mom doing this to me? I thought I was a terrible at it, I would run like a 9 or 10 minute mile. So when the school year came along I dreaded the end of the day I would look at the clock and think a tiny bit longer, please just a wee longer (and that is very very rare.) When the season began I had a lot of trouble, whether it was keeping up or if it was breathing problems, and My friend Zaske (who was and still is much faster than me) was nice enough that instead of going up with all the faster kids he stayed back with me, but even when he was going his slowest I still had trouble keeping up he would try to encourage me by saying “come on Michael just a little faster,” and I would respond with “i'm…
Have you ever ran in a cross country meet? I have ran in countless cross country meets; I have been running cross country for eight years now. Every race I run is a challenge, no matter what, because I push by body to its limit. Most people do not consider cross country to be fun. The enjoyable part is definitely not the race itself, but the feeling afterwards knowing that I kept pushing myself when my body and mind were both telling me to stop.
Yes, you can have a coach, buy the lightest shoes, and run with a team of runners. You can don the same uniform, try to predict what mile splits you wish to accomplish, and imagine whom you will pace behind. But once the starting gun fires, you are alone. You either fail or succeed because your own preparation, accord, and willpower. The beauty of running stems from choice – the choice to continue.
When I first started running for the track team freshman year, I was so innocently-minded and had not noticed a simple demographic difference in the people who tend to run the long-distance events and the sprinting events. My first race, I jogged up to the starting line and looked at my competitors left and right of me who happened to all seem much larger and more experienced than I was. That was all I noticed. A few minutes later one of the girls at the line jokingly said to me with a surprised manner that I was the little white girl running the 200 meter dash and I was going to get smoked by the genetically-advantaged black girls running in my heat. Her comment confused me because I didn’t think it mattered that I was white but I brushed it off my shoulders and ran.
but I decided I wanted to. We kept on running 2-3 miles on weekdays in the mornings and building up our long runs even more. They eventually got up to 9, 10, and 11 miles. Every night before our long runs we would have spaghetti for dinner, because pasta is energy, my dad would always tell me to have more and he would say, “It’s like eating energy.” He would also drive out along our running route and plant water
When I told my family, they were ecstatic. It was official. I was in cross country. But what I didn’t know, was that running was going to become a part of me. And it would help me discover things I thought I couldn’t do.
The great sport of cross country start as a sport not very long ago. That means in order to compete in the sport meant you had to be mentally fit with many qualities and expectations. The sport was once an olympic sport but was declined for many years. Cross country is growing and many more people are participating in the sport. It is completed in high school where many students compete.
Runners are not known for their biceps, but it can really aid a runner to have a fit core and toned arms because the intensity of cross country is magnified by the hills we climb during a race. A strong upper body will make a hill easier since the runner has more of an ability to move up the hill without burning as much energy. In response to this new knowledge, I signed up for a strength and conditioning class to improve my strength. Not surprisingly, these ideas have brought my running to an entirely new plane. I am now the second fastest on my team, and I have an opportunity to lead the boys’ varsity to state.
I 've run on purpose since summer 2012. I would go to a park close to home a few times a week to run on a one-mile gravel path that wrapped around the park 's perimeter. At the time, I was mostly concerned with running the one-mile loop as fast as I possibly could. I 'd run so hard in the mid-day heat that by the time I completed the loop I would be overcome with dizziness and an inability to catch my breath without laying on top of a nearby picnic
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." -Pre. Cross Country is a sport that requires pushing oneself through immense pain to achieve a goal. I never wanted to go through any of those pains to achieve anything. I used to think that I was going to participate in an after school activity for fun, but then my cross country team won the state championship meet, now I know I can do anything I put my mind to.
Throughout my life I have received some awards that I am proud of. The ribbons I receive are for running. I been told by many people, and adults that I’m a good runner. Ever since elementary track and field days,running the 50 meter dash, I have received compliments from many adults and family. As I grew up my love for running grew.
