freshman year-
47th
sophmore year 19th
out of about 350 kids

High school:
Girls: 2 miles
Guys: 5k
Sorta pathetic to run just 2 miles, but we're hoping the school board might change it. By the way I'm in an international school in south east asia.

i dont see the point of having different distances for boys and girls. i dk if it's supposed to be "easier" because girls arent as good at running as guys or something...but for the top runners at least, it will end up being just as hard, but faster instead of longer. id be ****** if i had to run 3k, 2 miles or 4k instead of 5k...one of the reasons im better at xc than track is i do better in the longer distances. im looking forward to running 6K sometimes in college...

same thing with running different distances in different grades...for girls especially, you dont neccesarily peak your senior year even if you do have more responsibility under your belt.

how we do it here in new york...for invitationals you run 5K (or 2.5 miles at some), for dual meets you run 3 miles. During invitationals they'll have a freshman race that's 1.5 miles. some freshmen will move up to varsity by the middle or end of the season, and others will run freshman races the whole season. at dual meets where there's enough people, for the freshman who really aren't in good enough shape to run 3miles, theyll have a freshman race too but it wont count for anything. i think it's a pretty good system. although it sounds stupid to run 5k at invitationals and 3 miles at dual meets, especially when the course is at the same park, but it's a bit of a different course and you have to race it differently...it changes things up at least.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ubermicro:

(out of roughly 200, (my school is huge!) - second largest in the UK apparently (2000+)

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do you mean there's 200 kids on your school's xc team? ive heard people talking about teams that size on this website but it still boggles my mind...

there's about 3500 kids in my school (high school, grades 9-12 if you dont know the american school system), and we have about 20 girls on our xc team, and another 20 or 25 on our guys team. for track, we'll usually have 60 or so girls at the first couple of practices but it'll dwindle to 40 by the end of the season.



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quote:<HR>Originally posted by Professor:
i dont see the point of having different distances for boys and girls. i dk if it's supposed to be "easier" because girls arent as good at running as guys or something<HR>

Exactly.
Doesn't really matter how long it is, you make the race as faster with the shorter distance. To say a 5k is harder than a 4k is stupid.

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Well you would have a really hard area, SWOSSA, Right? I always hate running aginst those guys from Sarnia and Windsor. I'm from WOSSAA, which means I have to run against all the London schools... which is a bit better, but still a pain.

Lol, I really need to get in shape for track it I want to make top Five at WOSSAA, and then top four at Regionals... **** I hate being a First year senior...