We are working on our preview of the xc event in Edinburgh this weekend and Jonathan Gault mentioned how the mixed gender relay there will be good practice for the mixed gender relay at World XC this year.
I read that and was like, "What? When did they add that?"
And we proud ourselves as being some of the biggest lovers of WORLD XC in the world. I'm one of the few journalists in the world that paid their own way to go to world xc in Jordan, Poland, and Guiyang.
So my question to you is simple, "Ddi you know they added a mixed gender relay to world xc?"
I did not.
It seems like they are trying to use it to replace the 4k in some ways as it's two runners of each gender doing one 2k loop on the course. It will be run first- before the junior races so someone like Kenenisa Bekele in his prime won't be doing it.