I will most likely be participating in both XC and track during college (most likely D3 level), but I was wondering what my options are post-college. I know there is road racing, but I was wondering if there are any clubs or groups that will still have a regular XC and track season where you actually go to meets and invitationals and compete in the same events I've always competed in. So what are my options?
I have seen many post-collegiate clubs made up of the alumni from teams at larger universities. Maybe they're in grad school now or something. For example, I ran xc meets at FSU many years, and always saw the 'homer simpson track club' mostly made up of fsu alumni, but there were others who ran on it too. I'm sure you can find something like that near where you'll eventually live.
Kid, it's nice to be thinking ahead; but don't you think you should GET to college first and THEN see if you even last through 4 years? (many don't). get back to us in 4 years.
It is a fair question. In New England we have always had good post collegiate cross country competition. You can see the schedule of the new New England Cross-country Grand Prix.
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And you can see what my club, Greater Boston is doing,
. The Boston Athletic Association puts on the Mayor's Cup, GBTC hosts a meet, as do many of the other clubs.
The clubs together under the USATFNE organization put on the New England Championships.
An important part of post-collegiate running clubs is that you have no endowed institution to support you so you can run the show yourself. We also have no AD who can cut the program.
Tom
Northern California has an excellent series.
We will all meet at the club Nationals that were in San Francisco last year and will be in Ohio this year.