Newbury Park - Why are the ducking the competition and going to Running Lane and not Eastbay?

I predict that runninglane will be the premier meet in 10 years and eastbay will be gone so their finish at runninglane will be more impressive.

Big Card wrote:

I predict that runninglane will be the premier meet in 10 years and eastbay will be gone so their finish at runninglane will be more impressive.

maybe there is a chance if they get funding to pay for kids. when nxn returns, who is going to pay for a meet when there is a free option?

Dumb Standards..... wrote:

Kinda dumb running lane qualification for the fast heat is by XC time. Shouldn't track times be considered seeing that every XC course is different. I am from New England and we will routinely have kids run 15:40s for XC that are sub 9 and 4:10 milers, but the courses here are not road races like a lot of XC courses are. I always thought xc was about place and it really didnt matter what time you ran. Track is about time.

yup. going by time is an absolute joke, and running lane actually became THE premier national championship, it will ruin what cross country is supposed to be. The northeast just does not have courses or conditions that are conducive to really fast times.

Maybe you didn't realize that teams pay for NXR and have to travel twice and miss more school for 2 meets. Yrs NXN pays for the 2nd meet but the total cost to the kid's family is about the same and it is a way bigger time commitment. Our NXR is 400 miles away. The trip to Alabama is cheaper.

Pay attention. The teams were selected. Wayzata wasn't top 50 on time but was selected due to resume.

you obviously don't know how their team plays into this. If you've been on an XC team before the team is practically a family and if I were them why would I ditch and destroy my teammates' seasons? It would be much more fun and I wouldn't be losing much by going to running lane with all my teammates. I wouldn't care about setting a record by making it with only four of my teammates. It's honestly just a fancy stat and the experience of traveling as a team to nationals is way more appealing.

iw0lfy wrote:

you obviously don't know how their team plays into this. If you've been on an XC team before the team is practically a family and if I were them why would I ditch and destroy my teammates' seasons? It would be much more fun and I wouldn't be losing much by going to running lane with all my teammates. I wouldn't care about setting a record by making it with only four of my teammates. It's honestly just a fancy stat and the experience of traveling as a team to nationals is way more appealing.

Sure, ok, ask each teams #2 through #7 runners plus the alternates and you'll get the same team answer.

Footlocker was definitely king among individual National champ up through the Cheserek-Fischer-Hunter years but afterwards, NXN not only had the team aspect but Casey Clinger and Nico Young clearly displaced the FL = National champ argument.

Since NXN came onto the scene, it's always been unfortunate that the schedule for each reside so close together (Nike going right at FL and FL being too stubborn to move....San Diego is very nice year around)

Guarantee, the top runners on the top teams who do NXR/N would also love to line up in a top 40 individual format race.

They want to run as a team and not individuals. NBP has nothing to prove, they’ve already proved it! They announced almost immediately where they were running when NXN was canceled.

They real question is why are the runners going to Eastbay ducking NBP.

According to Tully runner, 8 of the top 10 runners in the nation will be running at Running Lane. Only Sherry and Landon are missing.

oldoldrunner wrote:

They want to run as a team and not individuals. NBP has nothing to prove, they’ve already proved it! They announced almost immediately where they were running when NXN was canceled.

They real question is why are the runners going to Eastbay ducking NBP.

True. NP made it los and clear they were going to Running Lane way before Footlocker / Eastbay even committed to their race happening.

Sham 69 wrote:

I heard at Eastbay you have to wear a mask. I would rather go to RunningLane and not wear a mask.

Where in the world did you come up with that idea?

None of the Eastbay regionals required masks, and no one has worn a mask at any of the recent xc races at Balboa Park.

You can't "duck the competition" when there is no competition, and there is no competition for this team. They are the fastest highschool XC team of all time by an astonishing margin.

thftfy wrote:

According to Tully runner, 8 of the top 10 runners in the nation will be running at Running Lane. Only Sherry and Landon are missing.

Barna was entered in both Eastbay and RL. He missed the Eastbay Northeast regional last week due to being sick.

That’s a real backwards way to look at things. It’s Nike that placed their Regional races in certain areas right up against the corresponding FL/Eastbay Regional - you know, the same weekend they had been occupying for about 25 years prior to Nike coming on the scene.

How about Nike moves their regional races in those areas to the first weekend of December and then hold their championship race 2 weekends later.