UW Camp of Champions

So I just got back from the University of Wisconsin-Madison XC Camp of Champions and it was pretty great. This is one of the top camps in the nation (Finnerty attended last year). I got put in a pretty low mileage training group (we did around 35 miles during the week, but I guess it was only 4 real days), but I treated it as a pretty easy week. We went over a bit of basic physiology stuff and they taped our running form and reviewed it with us. It was pretty informative. There were a bunch of crazy fast people, including one kid who came in 18th at Footlocker and a 4:18/4:19 (not sure) Freshman miler.

The first night we got to watch Tegenkamp, Solinsky, and 2 other guys run a 1500. Teg went 3:38, I think. It was awesome. They let us sit in all but 3 lanes of the track to cheer on the runners. It also gave me a chance to check out the victories up close. We also had a tournament game of ultimate every night. Our team went undefeated.

I would highly recommend this camp. You get to meet a lot of cool people and get training advice from college coaches. I did get a little annoyed by all of the people throwing around frisbees ALL FUCKING DAY, but that was a small draw-back.

Spark notes: I went to camp. 'Twas the sh1tz0r.

hey, did you meet a freshmen named Ali?

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and yes, I was planning on going to that camp but my parents didn't want to pay for it =[

they said once i'm in high school maybe

nice. how much did it cost?

I don't know if you know who andrew perkins is (he is a leet 800 runner and miler), but he went to the UW madison camp, and then straight from there he went to UW oshkosh camp (where I'm going to school next year) which is some crazy stuff. I still don't know where he is going to school though, hopefully UW madision.

Edit: just found out he is going to university of norther iowa. Too bad for UW-M.

that sounds like a really cool running camp...i want to go to one next summer..
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