Back in my day, there used to be cross country (CC or XC), track and field, road running, and the Eskimo's had snowshoe running. Now there's "trail running," "ultra running," "mountain running," "sky running," "Spartan running," the "beer mile."
Back in my day, there used to be cross country (CC or XC), track and field, road running, and the Eskimo's had snowshoe running. Now there's "trail running," "ultra running," "mountain running," "sky running," "Spartan running," the "beer mile."
Some kind of gay messaging.
Google.com wrote:
“As Apollo’s winged sandals associate with track and field, so too does twin sister Artemis’s golden arrows appear for cross-country running; a symbol of strength, and a reminder of the connection between these twin disciplines within athletics.”
That sounds great but Apollo's brother Hermes had the winged sandals.
runhrd wrote:
I thought X stood for Christ, as in Xmas....
I don't know how old you are but when I ran in the late '70s / early '80s it was CC...... Maybe it's a regional thing?
I ran in the 70's (71-76 in high school) it was always XC and I was told the X was cross (as in one line crossing another).
I saw CC later and I noticed that a lot of the runners I coached who ran in college called it Cross.
Varsity letter men on my high school cross country team in the early '70's received a pin with an arrow through the CC. Friends asked the meaning of the pin, and I told them I was co-captain of the archery team.
runn wrote:
runhrd wrote:
I thought X stood for Christ, as in Xmas....
I don't know how old you are but when I ran in the late '70s / early '80s it was CC...... Maybe it's a regional thing?
I ran in the 70's (71-76 in high school) it was always XC and I was told the X was cross (as in one line crossing another).
I saw CC later and I noticed that a lot of the runners I coached who ran in college called it Cross.
5 year plan, nice!
The arrow is because of the legacy of Native American runners.
I wish I was making this up, but when I was in HS in the late 90's, some parents objected to a team t-shirt design that incorporated that logo because they thought it was phallic. Even as a bunch of immature, hormonal teenagers, we wouldn't have seen it that way unless they brought it up.
the magic rat wrote:
I wish I was making this up, but when I was in HS in the late 90's, some parents objected to a team t-shirt design that incorporated that logo because they thought it was phallic. Even as a bunch of immature, hormonal teenagers, we wouldn't have seen it that way had they not brought it up.
fixed the awkward wording there at the end
he hate me lives wrote:
No, X is cool and edgy like the XFL.
The X is for cross, but "X" is also cool and edgy.
X for extreme like the X Games.
X as in Rated X
X for experimental
X meaning an unknown quantity.
the magic rat wrote:
the magic rat wrote:
I wish I was making this up, but when I was in HS in the late 90's, some parents objected to a team t-shirt design that incorporated that logo because they thought it was phallic. Even as a bunch of immature, hormonal teenagers, we wouldn't have seen it that way had they not brought it up.
fixed the awkward wording there at the end
I appreciate that editing. You should do more of it.
orienteering is the real "cross country," and applied to that it would represent a compass needle.
Applied to golf-course races it means nothing. Its origin is probably buried in the sands of time and started with someone's random idea. It should be replaced with a golf club.
Bad Wigins wrote:
orienteering is the real "cross country," and applied to that it would represent a compass needle.
Applied to golf-course races it means nothing. Its origin is probably buried in the sands of time and started with someone's random idea. It should be replaced with a golf club.
Wigins, you're a funny dude. That gave me a good chuckle.
Always do the job with the fewest syllables possible IMO: Cross.
another perspective wrote:
runn wrote:
I ran in the 70's (71-76 in high school) it was always XC and I was told the X was cross (as in one line crossing another).
I saw CC later and I noticed that a lot of the runners I coached who ran in college called it Cross.
5 year plan, nice!
Freshman year fall 71 to spring 72
Sophomore year fall 72 to spring 73
Junior year fall 73 to spring 74
Senior year fall 74 to spring 75
Four years
this and this wrote:
he hate me lives wrote:
No, X is cool and edgy like the XFL.
The X is for cross, but "X" is also cool and edgy.
X for extreme like the X Games.
X as in Rated X
X for experimental
X meaning an unknown quantity.
X as in a symbol for illiterates to use who don't even know how to spell or sign their own name.
the magic rat wrote:
I wish I was making this up, but when I was in HS in the late 90's, some parents objected to a team t-shirt design that incorporated that logo because they thought it was phallic. Even as a bunch of immature, hormonal teenagers, we wouldn't have seen it that way unless they brought it up.
Early 80s. Our xc team all got stars on our team shirt for stuff like how cool your car was, how cool you were, etc. Rumor started it was how many girls we had sex with and the teachers complained. We had to make new shirts. What was funny was that a couple of us had like 2 and a 1/2 stars.
Google.com wrote:
“As Apollo’s winged sandals associate with track and field, so too does twin sister Artemis’s golden arrows appear for cross-country running; a symbol of strength, and a reminder of the connection between these twin disciplines within athletics.”
Although I am one to embrace this very coincidence the answer in the modern day is due to the way a modernized form Hares and Hounds would have been played. (1880s)
The hares originally left paper scraps behind -- shaped in an arrow -- as an indicator to which direction the hounds should chase them. However, the game upgraded to chalkboards due to wind and weather. The Hares would run ahead and leave a chalk arrow for the hounds to follow.
The coincidence with Artemis traces back to a very early evidence of a cross country chase at the Sanctuary of Artemis in Brauron. Young girls before puberty would participate in a ritual chase and they ran in the name of the bear to commemorate a tragedy. This was a festival of Arkteia
cubic centimeter wrote:
it was cc when i ran. never heard xc till much later.
I never heard of cross country called XC until the new millennium. I think it started with CC skiing's popularity.
AND I'm older than 99% of the people who post on LRC.