Woodbridge off to a slow start

Rich isn't the problem it is the dumb meet director. Fix the damn course

Yes, of course, but this is X-C. Any international X-C fans must be having a field day with this thread. Get over it. No hay bales, no mud, no hills, and where's the frigg'in snow?? Enough already. 3.022 now, OMG!

C’mon buddy, takes two minutes to create a email so I can send you a pic. I called you a cry baby because you’re making a big deal about a 100 meter long course. You get offended and then you say I haven’t won anything meaningful, I have a D1 medal to prove it to you that you’re wrong, since it’s all anonymous on here.

C’mon, the email can be named literally anything and I’ll send you a pic of it with this thread in the background. C’mon Karen, I’ll keep waiting while you find an excuse to justify you weren’t wrong…

Teaching these kids to worry about cross country times is straight up bad. Look how Mike smith, Dave smith, ed eyestone, etc go about teaching their athletes to race. Always the cry babies who were never good enough make a big deal on here about things as stupid as the correct measurement of a course. Wisconsin course is longer than a 8k…yet everyone still goes every year…

maybe we should write rich to pressure the race officials to shorten it more***
I've already written him a lot and don't want him to hate me lol so I could use some help

50% of this course is for time!

I don't know Rich but if anyone does: please I beg you send him text and pressure him to shorten the course more. We need that race official to make this 3 miles, nobody cares if they delay the start of the meet by 30 minutes but the course NEEDS to be 3 miles like it has always been

tell rich "our athletes are no longer excited to run on this course. I don't think the energy will be the same like it has been in the past. Please have the race director change the course to 3 miles."

kids that are too stupid to understand XC is run for place not time are upset that they can't chase a time that isn't repeatable on any other course in the country and meaningless to any college coach. Are kids getting dumber in CA?

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT from the Day 1 Runners!!!

You know how many scholarships were lost!!

Man I bet RunningLane is furiously taking notes right now.

…so what is final decision? Races are starting in a few minutes. Will they correct day two to 3 miles? Thus making merge results impossible…

I can deal with the fractional overage now. What’s that like 5-10 sec?

It’s cross country, if you’re that worried about the time next to your name then you should prolly scroll to the left and check out the place next to it to humble yourself. Nobody’s losing scholarships if they go out there and race the guys next to them- you people are nuts

see the trick is if you tell someone "i'm a sub-15 XC runner you can avoid the fact that its a 3 mile course and ignore the fact that that time barely squeaks you into the top 90 or 100 in the race.

Only in America can coaches, parents, fans complain and CHANGE a course one day to the next. And you wonder why we continue to lose.

Then your next 500 emails should be to various platforms and race websites to have them remove all the course record data, and heck, what do PRs matter either? Burn all the stopwatches and just run. Who needs all this silly motivation?

TBF i dont see how a course record can be that important at a course that changes its layout as often as Woodbridge does. Course records are relevant at some other historic courses.

Seems like others disagree but to me PR's in cross aren't a thing. If a 15:00 on one course can be more impressive than a 14:30 on another then why should an XC PR matter? Save the PR's for the track.

There is no 3-mile in high school track dufus.

5k is the recognized distance for xc anyways, why does a 3 mile PR matter whether its xc or track. They even switch to the 5k at states in Cali.