Hi all,
I'm not a track guy. I'm a football player by trade, but I have a question about something I witnessed during a fairly high level (conference championship) HS cross country meet here.
I do my hill running at a place where it's about the one mile mark for a 3.5 or so mile course. They run on a path that crosses on a perpendicular about 20yds behind where I run.
A pack of the leaders, maybe 5 or 6 guys, running at a fast clip, went by, and they were talking — just shooting the s–t. One guy was talking about his girlfriend. They were definitely in the first mile of the race, but I found this to be a little odd, having never really seen a cross country race.
Is this normal?