xc is a softer surface. Sure its longer but I've run on the xc course barefoot for 30+ minutes without too much pain.
I think they are a gimmick
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xc is a softer surface. Sure its longer but I've run on the xc course barefoot for 30+ minutes without too much pain.
I think they are a gimmick
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There are rocks, sticks, gravel, etc. on some XC courses...not all XC courses are the perfectlt manicured golf courses that Americans have come accustomed to competing on.
Have you never run cross country before?
Because you're probably running on golf courses. Once you start running on gravel, hard packed dirt, doing stream crossing, and things of that nature. That's when the thicker soles help.
No wonder why elite track athletes don't go on this forum much......that has to be one of the dumbest questions I've ever seen on here and that's saying ALOT!!
Do you run or have you ever actually raced?
roblox oof sound wrote:
xc is a softer surface. Sure its longer but I've run on the xc course barefoot for 30+ minutes without too much pain.
I think they are a gimmick
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Sometimes the ground is even frozen.
roblox oof sound wrote:
xc is a softer surface. Sure its longer but I've run on the xc course barefoot for 30+ minutes without too much pain.
I think they are a gimmick
Discus
If you wore CC spikes you would have had NO pain.
KickingitHighSchool wrote:
Because you're probably running on golf courses. Once you start running on gravel, hard packed dirt, doing stream crossing, and things of that nature. That's when the thicker soles help.
give me a break packed dirt is much softer than track. so is gravel
I mean the track at our school is 50 years old, but
the xc course at our park where we normally race has roots, no rocks, but it has gravel sometimes. I've run it barefoot with no issues. It's at Tom Sawyer Park, if you care to know (and the 5k course is different from the 10k that D1 nattys uses, they go around the roots)
That's not real XC
There's more unpredictability and unevenness on a trail than a track.