When did you stop missing high school cross country?

Shut up.

Are you a freshman in college?

I dont think I will ever stop feeling nostalgic for it at times. Especially in the summer when I run (that feeling of summer miles), or in the fall when its usually championship season.

What makes me not miss it or wish I was still running is looking at the life of some of my running bum friends. I completely respect their choice, but it would feel empty to me. I enjoy the freedom I have in running now, and I am glad that I am pursuing grad school rather than working at a running shoe store.

I coach it, I can't imagine the day I step away and don't go to an invitational on an Autumn Saturday morning.

The system is different over here (UK) and school cross country isn't very popular. In my last two years of high school I ran on the boy's team as there wasn't a girl's team. There were two of us who did that.

2.5 years out of college wrote:

What makes me not miss it or wish I was still running is looking at the life of some of my running bum friends. I completely respect their choice, but it would feel empty to me.

Care to elaborate?

2.5 years out of college wrote:

I dont think I will ever stop feeling nostalgic for it at times. Especially in the summer when I run (that feeling of summer miles), or in the fall when its usually championship season.

What makes me not miss it or wish I was still running is looking at the life of some of my running bum friends. I completely respect their choice, but it would feel empty to me. I enjoy the freedom I have in running now, and I am glad that I am pursuing grad school rather than working at a running shoe store.

I agree with this. Still a big fan of the sport though.

As soon as I started college running.

One second after I crossed the finish line at the state meet my senior year.

Yea I'm a freshman in college.

Just wondering about other people's experiences with this, I guess I didn't realize how important it was to me and now its gone.

I'm 53 years old and still miss it.

I feel in the same boat, but you can always run as unattached in the fall or track meets in the spring! Or maybe help out with a local high school's program. Give back and still stay involved if your up to it!

I miss having training partners in general. I get my fill on competition from road races. I don't miss anything about high school. I am an adult.

Ha, wow I was going to start a thread with the same topic last night. Last night I was looking at some old photos archived online taken from a when I ran in highschool, the link to which my friend copied and pasted onto my facebook wall, and I saw the year they were taken...2006. 2006? That's not that long ago, then I realized, holy shit! That was 8 years ago. Pretty wild man. TO answer the OP's question, no. Graduated in '07 and it hasn't stopped lol.

I'm almost 50 and still miss it - I am lucky to have a son who runs in hs so I can enjoy it vicariously.

A cool fall weekend with foliage and all the fit young people...it's the greatest.

I still miss my hs xc years - glad to see others feel that way too.

When I started getting laid in college by a blonde with huge tatts

Never.

Usually there will be a few keys that will trigger a memory or make think that it's "XC time".

I'm 51 and still miss it. My mind was wandering in the middle of a meeting this morning, thinking about a race I won in grade eleven and how I need to write as accurate an account as I can of all of my HS races. But in general I'm very, very prone to nostalgia.

My hs team was something of a joke, even though my coach was very good. People wouldn't run during the summer. When coach wasn't looking, like in the woods, they'd walk. Girls would wear heels all day at school and wonder why their feet hurt at practice. Most of the team would take off on the weekend instead of doing a long run. You get the picture. I stopped missing hs xc the first day of practice in college.