Cross country question

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          crackback on October 22, 2003 at 2:17 am #8658

          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?

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          CoachKW on October 22, 2003 at 8:50 am #22916

          I'd say it's not all that common that far into the race. Sometimes you hear some chatter in the first 800-1000 meters in the race particularly from a stronger team just trying to get into some elses head, but I've rarely seen a prolonged conversation because at race pace it's just not that easy to have a lengthy talk. At the bigger meets it's fairly uncommon.

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          midpackmag on October 24, 2003 at 3:44 am #22917

          i concur! as a coach and a runner, if during a race— at that point— then there's not a lot of racing going on.

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          lngdstncernr on February 1, 2004 at 2:57 am #22918

          we typically yell at the people on our team who are talking during the race because they aren't focused.

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          Carl Valle on February 1, 2004 at 6:44 am #22919

          Cowards…instead of pushing the pace they are doing the last 100 yard sprint…lame.:flaming:

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          thor on February 4, 2004 at 9:22 pm #22920

          Or maybe they where sprinters with superior speed-reserve?

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          CoachKW on February 5, 2004 at 2:24 am #22921

          LOL, it don't work that way. 😛

        • Member
          ajpennypacker505 on February 6, 2004 at 5:44 am #22922

          my team does that only when we are racing pathetic league teams and we run as a pack slow in front of their first runners. but in real meets we dont because it wastes a lot of energy to talk and u cant do it when ur at real race pace

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          radicalromo on April 17, 2004 at 7:16 am #22923

          as a cross country runner my self when i am in any race or time trial that talking to much or any at all tend to upset my stumach or even get my breathing also i find it better to consintrate on the goals ahead so there for i do find it strange for these boys to be talking while competing! now if was a warm up or a practise that would be a different story

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