The Official 2008 XC Thread

wow our team sucks compared to yours. Only three girls have ever gone sub-19:30. The average frosh time is 25:18 according to my friend.

AudienceOfOne wrote:one freshman on my team ran a 19:16 in her first race. ballin.

I'm sure she'll go below that, this was one of our slowest courses sooo yeah

poop. but I guess i'm still number 2 which is okay.

FinishingKick wrote:

SourWorms wrote:

AudienceOfOne wrote:

SourWorms wrote:first race of the season 105 degrees. 16:48 so i'm happy

nice. what time of day did you race, because that heat would suck.

it was about 5:30 so it was still really bad

What place are you on your team?

that day i was 3rd with 4th being about 4 seconds behind me. our 5th, 6th, and 7th that day were our usual 3rd, 8th, 9th respectively. and our usual number 4 didn't race due to injury

What place am I on fk/sourworm's team? I think I asked you before fk but you said you didn't have a real race yet or something like that.

based on your track times you would be 9-10
i dunno about your 5k since we have only run one race this year and it was 105 outside

just got back from my first race of the season. We won our varsity race we took 3,4,5,6,7.
its stupid though, because they didnt tell us our times when we finish...we have to wait for them to email our coach and then our coach tells us. it was really hilly so i know my time sucked lol.

SW-My track times are garbage. Once you guys run more tell me my place because I like to see where I rank on good teams.

You would be #4 on my old high school team as it stands now. Granted it's a very small school, but we are pretty good.

going for sub 17 this saturday.

My first xc race ever is tomorrow night. I'm already freaking out.

This is the trainer we were given. Don't like nike too much when it comes to the regs, but it's ok and it's a free 95 dollar shoe.





The bottom one is my xc spike. I'm not even quite sure what it is. I'm pretty sure it's the Nike Zoom Waffle XC VI. I know it's nike and it's part of the Bowerman Series just like the first shoe. That's the only picture I can get of it. We have the red ones. Oh and they feel amazing.

AudienceOfOne wrote:one freshman on my team ran a 19:16 in her first race. ballin.

That would be the kind of kid my coach calls a freak of nature.

We graduated some of our Varsity runners (number two and three), but last year we had three girls go sub-20. Our team is only 16 this year, so we don't know how well we'll do.

I'm so sick of my quads and racing. This may sound retarded that I'm complaining about it.. but every time I race, EVERY TIME my quads just feel like they were shot at, beat up etc.. I know your legs are suppose to hurt somewhat, but it just slows me down so much and its frustrating.. I try but they like just dont go anyfaster..

Sorry lamest rant ever ^ but Basically what I'm asking is, what can I do to get rid of that annoying pain?

icing always makes me feel good.
so does the stick.

Icing stretching and resting. Get in an easy day or just a day off. If you have access, take ice baths because that soothes the pain a lot.

ice baths rock.

Get the stick.

T B K wrote:Get the stick.

TWSS.

I take a million ice baths (they are amazing)

Its just when I race, my coach says its because I'm not "racing" and if I was really racing then I wouldn't notice or get the pain.. ? eh w/e.

Pinthin wrote:I take a million ice baths (they are amazing)

Its just when I race, my coach says its because I'm not "racing" and if I was really racing then I wouldn't notice or get the pain.. ? eh w/e.

Nerves?

Maybe you are focusing on the pain because you are freaked out about the race. Your body tenses up and when you hit the pain it makes you panic and exascerbate it? Focus focus focus while you are racing.

BagoXC25 wrote:You would be #4 on my old high school team as it stands now. Granted it's a very small school, but we are pretty good.

no your not

SourWorms wrote:

BagoXC25 wrote:You would be #4 on my old high school team as it stands now. Granted it's a very small school, but we are pretty good.

no your not

lol, I saw it coming.

I had my first xc race ever last night!!
It was so much fun! It was a huge invitational at night and it was raining so there was so much mud and it was awesome.
My time was 26:08 (I'm still trying to figure out how to race it and the course was long). The really cool thing is that I was in the JV race and beat the times of two of our varsity girls!
Also, a girl fell in front of me on a muddy downhill and I jumped over her!!! It was fricking awesome!! haha

nice job bgt

thanks