NXN 2024 Thread

disagree they ran great. This was a really talented field

I have heard he’s LDS and is being recruited by BYU. Not sure about other schools though.

Is there any explanation why NJ teams and runners always are ranked so highly at the start of the year but fail to perform at nationals? Every year CBA is glazed incessantly, runs some insane team average at holmdel park and comes into NXN ranked top 3, and yet they never win. The only explanation I can think of is that they have to travel further so they might be experiencing jet lag. Its not like there is a lack of hilly and muddy courses in NJ

It would be cool to see the HS boys national races run on modified collegiate courses. Madison one year, Oklahoma the next, Virginia another year. Moving it around would be cool. But cross country as a whole should be less manicured trail and grass and make people fight through and this course today did a great job of that.

Bullsh!t. There are tough courses. There are tough conditions. And then there's this.

Why should the outcome of a team race be determined by a fall? Is that how you want a national championship decided? Is that how you determine who the best is?

I'm from the northeast. We run tough courses, cupcake.

It's funny yes, but that is also a serious reflection of the culture over at Carroll and many of those other Paavo programs

Tine to combine NY and the northeast

Can see them saying "I am so cold" on stage lmao.

If Barrett won this race, Niwot still would have won. Shows how great of a race Niwot had today

100% agree. Yeah, her turn puts her finishing with boys who ran low 15's at Woodward Park. I don't need we'd see that from Hedengren lol.

But easily the most dominant performance by a girl on this course and it was a blast being able to watch it live.

if its jet lag its poor planning on their part. NY girls teams haven't had an issue with jet lag historically.

Post of the Day.

Barrett fell back from 7th to about 15th at the 3K. Disappeared after that. Not sure if he fell.

They didn't do too badly as a team in spite of their #1 runner having a horrible race.

Maybe a look at their strava profiles could give you an insight into their training.

One thing about NJ XC this year: NY and NJ had drought conditions for most of the fall. In other words, every Saturday was basically perfect XC conditions. Of course, they've been disappointing in other years, too.

Worth mentioning Downers Grove in 6th and State College in 8th. Weren't up there in the predictions, but both teams have a history of running well in wet, difficult conditions, and it showed today. The importance of running well in the rain significantly outweighed the talent today and I think the results may been drastically different all across the board with different conditions. Vause is proof that to win races, you don't need to be the best runner, but you need to be the best runner on that day.

Props to Xavier. New team scoring record: 605 points! For the record, they could have walked the course and maxed out at 750.

"We had an ok day but our 6 and 7 guy scored so I knew we weren't gonna do great" "Yeah our coach has been 3rd-2nd-3rd so he's a really good podium coach" these kids are killing me rn

this was said last year when Jojo Jourdon won. Turns out he was the best runner, and now the fastest true freshman in College over everyone including griffith

as long as Nike is the title sponsor, there is just no way they could create an experience like they do anywhere else in the country without increasing the cost by an order of magnitude

been there with individuals/teams on 4 sep occasions and while all the teams want to perform well, the race itself isn't even the most exciting part of going

i'm from socal. i fully understand that things like altitude, humidity, weather etc. can and do make an impact on athletes. i still like going up to Portland even though we got the cards kinda stacked against us. it's honestly a lot of fun. more of a season-ending victory parade of sorts really.