Hoodoo Guru
A friend of mine just sent me an e-mail that his daughter's cross country team, Carmel High School in Indiana, is #1 in the country. I went to the school's web site and it shows the roster. They must have over 200 girls on the team. 200! I was flabbergasted to see that number. Is that unusually high? I always thought most schools had a dozen runners and big schools might have 20-30. I guess my view of this is colored by the fact that we had 12 kids or less when I was in high school about 35 years ago.
The tangents are moot.
Set the bar low. Crawl under it.
Yes, that's unusually high.
Runners run.
I've looked up a recent HS XC roster and found it to be very large. Upon closer inspection, the roster was from the T&F season.
That said.. The Long Green Line seemed to have a rather large team. Im guessing state / nationally ranked teams have a way of being popular.
"run" "to" "eat"
of those 200 kids, 4 are competitive and 196 joined the team to get out of gym class.
i find the sunshine beckons me to open up the gate and dream and dream ~~robbie williams
was that #1 in volume?
hey, dallas -- c'mon man, they didn't have cross country when you were in school. i mean, it doesn't count as "cross country" just because cars weren't invented yet.
This.
When I was a junior in high school our outdoor T & F team was ranked #1 by USA Today, we were state class champions, state relay champions and we had not lost a dual meet in 16 years (the streak eventually reached 30 years). We had 95 boys on our team and could win most dual meets by taking half of our varsity team to the meet and leaving the rest home to do a workout.
leaving the rest home to do a workout.
this is what dallas does every time he goes for a run.
He leaves the "rest-home"?
I'm lucky they let me use the computer here at the rest home. I monopolize it sending out rants to the local newspaper and politicians about pressing issues like the long traffic signal, barking dogs, the length of my neighbor's grass and kids on drugs.
And I know we had a cross country team in High school. Why else would a bunch of pale, skinny, bandy legged kids run around the park behind the school in singlets and shorts in the middle of the winter?
HobbyJogger & HobbyRacer
.. Why else would a bunch of pale, skinny, bandy legged kids run around the park behind the school in singlets and shorts in the middle of the winter?
I bet you can find answers to this on the Trenternet. Use trendy, incomprehensible young words like "Goth", maybe.
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
you felt you needed to explain the pun?
pressing issues like
...your prostate on your bladder?
42,500 Miles Later
Yes, that's unusually high. I coach a 1A high school girls team that's doing reasonably well this season, and we have about a dozen on the team--about half of them very competitive and the other half working at becoming so.
(It may be worth mentioning that if the team is #1 in the country, there may be plenty of people jumping on the bandwagon.)
It should be mathematical, but it's not.
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