Championship Week!

The beginning of this week marked the start of our championship season. The two championship meets we have are both on Fridays. This Friday is our Prep League meet. We are competing for our fourth consecutive prep league win. There will be eleven schools we are racing against. The list of schools are at Milestat.com (http://va.milesplit.com/meets/154134-prep-league-lis-championships#.UnFPJXDVCs8).

Next Friday is the VISAA State Cross Country Meet. This is a big meet! We have been training for this meet all year. We will be competing for our fourth consecutive win, also. The meet is held at Woodberry Forest. The Woodberry Forest course is, in my opinion, a great course to have the state meet. The course is challenging making it a slow course. There are also great places for spectators to go to watch the race. If you have nothing to do on Friday November 8th come watch the state meet! My question for you is, what do you think about the Collegiate course?

Collegiate course map: http://cache.milesplit.com/venue_files/1862/full/5k_course_map

VISAA State Cross Country Meet

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 Boulder Running Company 

Over the summer a few of the guys on the team and I went to a cross country camp in Colorado. While we were there, we went to visit the Boulder Running Company. The Boulder Running Company is this store that specializes in selling running gear. While shopping through the store I found a lot of running gear that I have never seen before. There was this contraption that rolled out your calves. It had wheels on either side and you had to roll in up and down your leg. Along with all the gear you could look through, they also had tread mills where the employees could analyze your running form! The employee that analyzed my teams form was a very strange man. He told us that we all had terrible running form, and that we should buy new running shoes as soon as possible. I did not believe him because a few months before then I had my form analyzed by a running specialist, who studies running form for a job, told me I had great form. The store also had an event going on outside the store. There was a tent with music and a group of people who were going to run and among them was a famous runner! Frank Shorter was there and we got to meet him!

Although the staff was strange, to say the least, I would have to say that this store is a great place to visit if you are interested in running. They have great running gear and even have, on occasion, events that include famous runners. I would recommend this store to anyone who were to visit Boulder Colorado.

Front of the Boulder Running Company and their logo

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