Appears to be his first season
Appears to be his first season
friends (and was on the team with) with someone who ran a 20:40 (unofficial, XC) freshman year, 2:50 (800) in indoor...ran like 20 miles per week (injured before) and ran 4:50 in spring, then ended up running low 15s before he graduated
Interesting story here
In 1972 I ran my first mile for time. 6:35 for the slowest on a slow team. A brief 35 years later I ran the fastest ever 800m for 50-year old in my states history. None of this mattered much to anybody else, but I'm still at it with a smile a half century on....
Your studying of a Middle Eastern language is paying off now!
Drew Symons - Onalaska.
Played soccer in the past but had a successful track campaign last 2 seasons
Decided to do XC this year. Ran a 17:09 and was their 4th man
He is a senior not a freshman as listed
This guy hasn’t run competitively since 2019. He ran a 16:36 5k this year
My junior year in HS we had a senior guy who was a swimmer come out for cross country. He had never run before. He won every cross country race he entered that fall and then came in second at state.
He then did swimming. Came out for track with about six weeks left to go in the season. Didn't really train. 20-25 miles a week due to nagging injuries. Basically just raced once a week for speed training. Got smoked the first couple of meets in the 2 mile. Got second at conference behind the guy who beat him for state in cross country in his third race. Then he won regionals and won state in the 2 mile.
I've never seen anybody who literally didn't train that could run like he could.
Now if he could just stay out of his couch’s crack long enough for the smell to wear off.