Home meets/favorite courses

[Bathd23]

do you guys have any home meets? or what is your favorite coarse to run on? bath is so bad for xc. we practice next to a playground and we run on a 750m grass loop around our soccer field lol. we dont have any places for meets we tried at mossy bank but no. my favorite place is mcquaid invite. i love that coarse and the competition. i also like oatka park(might of misspelled it) all in the deep woods.

[soccerstud11]

do you guys have any home meets? or what is your favorite coarse to run on? bath is so bad for xc. we practice next to a playground and we run on a 750m grass loop around our soccer field lol. we dont have any places for meets we tried at mossy bank but no. my favorite place is mcquaid invite. i love that coarse and the competition. i also like oatka park(might of misspelled it) all in the deep woods.

Where town is Oatka Park in?

[IVAN]

Marcus Whitman is a great test for a cross country runner, the course at Newark (the old Stuart Park) is another.

Genesee Valley Park (McQuaid Invite) course is a zoo. The course is not easy but on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the toughest, I'd say GVP is a 2.

I like Sunken Meadow, site of this years state meet. There is going to be a range of opinions on this, it all depends if you like a challenge or if you like 'em flat and fast. Flat and fast is good if you're a miler, add some hills and now it's a race.

[Snowboarder32]

do you guys have any home meets? or what is your favorite coarse to run on? bath is so bad for xc. we practice next to a playground and we run on a 750m grass loop around our soccer field lol. we dont have any places for meets we tried at mossy bank but no. my favorite place is mcquaid invite. i love that coarse and the competition. i also like oatka park(might of misspelled it) all in the deep woods.


I love Oatka, it's my favorite. Pembroke is a nice course, so is GCP1 (only one i've ran on idk about GCP2) For some sick reason I really like Stonybrook, it's a good challenge for a new runner like i was last year

We have a home meet this year and our invite so we get to run at Alexander twice :D i don't like our course too much though because it's just two loops

[leroydistance]

Yea i saw we run there. i didnt kno you had a course. i like our home course but we dont have any home meets this year becuase there doin constrution for new playing fields

[Snowboarder32]

Yea i saw we run there. i didnt kno you had a course. i like our home course but we dont have any home meets this year becuase there doin constrution for new playing fields

yeah ours isn't that bad at worst it's a gradual hill two loops


unless we change it to the death course (we practice on it) then it'll have one of the hardest hills to go up in section v haha no joke, it's nasty but it'd have to be flattened and whatnot so i doubt that'll happen

[Bathd23]

stony brook has a nasty hill in the back. states last year had a 3 killer hills. one of them was called stinger hill, the other was swear hill and i forgot the other one. i like mcquaid cuz you know im miler haha.

[LEROY]

stony brook has a nasty hill in the back. states last year had a 3 killer hills. one of them was called stinger hill, the other was swear hill and i forgot the other one. i like mcquaid cuz you know im miler haha.

idk why but i liked clarence

[Bathd23]

ive never been there.

[Snowboarder32]

ive never been there.

neither have i haha whats it like?

[boobiemiles]

big long gradual hill to start the race..... run around the top of the hill.... then go back down to about the starting line... (i'd like to say it's about .8 miles, but i'm not really sure)... back up the hill only you go left this time (went right on first loop)... run a little on the top of the hill, then down a steep wet paved road through some woods, another little loop... then back to the start of the loop and go up this hill of death..... i'd compare it a lot to the first hill at stony brook. Only it is not quite as steep, and when you clear the woods part of the hill, you are only really half done with it even through it feels like you should be done.... then back around to the top of the hill that you started with and run down the finish line that is on a level area parallel to the starting hill. it's a shorter course... like 3 miles even i think

[boobiemiles]

i dont think that helped at all......

so basically it's a 2 times up a long gradual hill

and once up a steep long hill.................................


my favorite courses were always stony brook, mill creek, and the hfl park for some reason haha............ and i also had 2 really good days at livonia when i ran it this year and my freshman year


i also hated our course at oakfield.....


and there's a new course at holley... does anybody know anything about that

[OldSchool78]

do you guys have any home meets? or what is your favorite coarse to run on? bath is so bad for xc. we practice next to a playground and we run on a 750m grass loop around our soccer field lol. we dont have any places for meets we tried at mossy bank but no. my favorite place is mcquaid invite. i love that coarse and the competition. i also like oatka park(might of misspelled it) all in the deep woods.

Coarse would be more appropriate if you were describing sandpaper.

[boobiemiles]

hahahahaha that is correct

[Bathd23]

uh my bad?

[LEROY]

yea clarence is pretty open but cool for some reason where is mill creek? And you like the HFL course? I hate that course lol expecially when its hot out

[boobiemiles]

mill creek is some godforsaken golf course that i ran at......... i think my sophomore year, i graduated last year..........

it has a big long down hill to start... run around the golf course a little, then up a steep grassy hill, back down another hill and back up the starting hill to finish.... for some reason i really liked that place...

the hfl course i thought was really fun just cuz of how hilly it is

[LEROY]

mill creek is some godforsaken golf course that i ran at......... i think my sophomore year, i graduated last year..........

it has a big long down hill to start... run around the golf course a little, then up a steep grassy hill, back down another hill and back up the starting hill to finish.... for some reason i really liked that place...

the hfl course i thought was really fun just cuz of how hilly it is

that is true it has nice hills and i havent heard about holleys new course but the last time i ran there was mod and i liked the mod course

[boobiemiles]

also, i never liked gcc because of how windy it can get by county championship times, and I also thought byron bergen invite was always too hot and it never felt right until we go into the woods

[LEROY]

also, i never liked gcc because of how windy it can get by county championship times, and I also thought byron bergen invite was always too hot and it never felt right until we go into the woods

I would agree

[Bathd23]

yea clarence is pretty open but cool for some reason where is mill creek? And you like the HFL course? I hate that course lol expecially when its hot out

yeah hfl is bad. its like an open field and all hills. but yet derek ran his best time there. thats wierd

[leroydistance]

Its a shorter course its like 2.9 miles or somethin like that. that could be why

[LEROY]

Its a shorter course its like 2.9 miles or somethin like that. that could be why

its shorter than that

[Bathd23]

the hills make up for it. its bad

[anth31]

for hfl you just run 2 modified loops right? i went there in modified but we didn't go my freshmen year last year

[LEROY]

for hfl you just run 2 modified loops right? i went there in modified but we didn't go my freshmen year last year

pretty much yea it like the same thing i think

[Snowboarder32]

we run there tuesday... we're doing a hill workout tomorrow for it
boooooo

[hornets10]

last year when i ran i thought that oakta park in scottsville was pretty easy so was bergens course. stony brooks hill in the back is like death. it seriously feels like ure running up a wall.

[anth31]

yeah we run against alexander hfl and hornell I believe. Should be a fun meet

[Bathd23]

haha luckly for the dansville invite the wayco team was acually cool and didnt include the hill :D

[Snowboarder32]

this week is going to be hill hell
Semmel on tuesday
then MW on saturday
:(

[Bathd23]

that marcus witmen course seems easy but its very deceptive. that long gradual hill kills people. i always believe if you feel good after the first loop you are going to have a good race.

[anth31]

what do you mean did they just cut the course?

[Bathd23]

for dansville?

[anth31]

yeah you said they didn't do the back hill. did they change the course or did someone cut

[Bathd23]

the wayco team hosted it and i think its a new rule where if your the hosting team you can decide if you have the hill in or not. and they decided not to

[LEROY]

the wayco team hosted it and i think its a new rule where if your the hosting team you can decide if you have the hill in or not. and they decided not to

yea one of the host schools run it and the other doesnt

[Bathd23]

leroy ran at genesee park 2 right? the one with the new course? idk if its 1 or 2. how is the course? i heard it was flat.

[runningfan]

leroy ran at genesee park 2 right? the one with the new course? idk if its 1 or 2. how is the course? i heard it was flat.

Its pretty flat and spikes are a bad idea b/c of one section. We practiced on it one day - its ok....

[TakeNotes134]

tell me about it? what do you mean bad in one area? i take it its on cement

[LEROY]

tell me about it? what do you mean bad in one area? i take it its on cement

its actually on the pond

[LEROY]

its a new thing we r trying out it makes it a lot harder when you have to run across a pond trust me

[TakeNotes134]

im confused, on a pond? why is it a bad idea to wear spikes?

[runningfan]

im confused, on a pond? why is it a bad idea to wear spikes?

There is no pond, but there is some concrete and a long section of wood chips and their big and get stuck in your spikes. Even the guys with pin spikes had to stop and pull some chunk of wood off their shoes. The day we practiced a couple of us went back to the bus and put our trainers on and we was so much faster than the spike guys. Good luck - when do you race there?

[anth31]

the wayco team hosted it and i think its a new rule where if your the hosting team you can decide if you have the hill in or not. and they decided not to

oh man i wish we would've went the hills kill me and one less would've been great haha

[boobiemiles]

oh man i wish we would've went the hills kill me and one less would've been great haha
good luck tomorrow t-bone

[anth31]

thanks dude i ran a 20:22 hahah. nads an beuls broke 20

[Snowboarder32]

thanks dude i ran a 20:22 hahah. nads an beuls broke 20

you were right ahead of me...
i had 20:54

[Bathd23]

bull crap about the no hills. it was the hilliest course ive ever been on lol i fell down this big one twice

[LEROY]

bull crap about the no hills. it was the hilliest course ive ever been on lol i fell down this big one twice

its not that bad they are just short little hills

[runningfan]

bull crap about the no hills. it was the hilliest course ive ever been on lol i fell down this big one twice Really? sorry - I must be thinking of a different course - you were talking about Genesee Valley Park - right?

[boobiemiles]

County* genesee county park. at least thats what i think he was talking about

[Bathd23]

yeah that one. my bad. ha i thought it was flat so i was pumped but when i walked it i just wanted to cry. lol we go there again next week.

[Snowboarder32]

but when i walked it i just wanted to cry=


whats what i normally do...

[anth31]

are you guys talking about gcp 1 or 2

[boobiemiles]

are you guys talking about gcp 1 or 2
2. they changed the course around. how did you finish yesterday t-bone? break 20 yet?

[anth31]

2. they changed the course around. how did you finish yesterday t-bone? break 20 yet?

no i was really close though. i ran a 20:22. i was dead up the last hill thats what killed my time. hopefully at gcc or mcquaid i will

oh and how much did they change gcp 2

[LEROY]

oh and how much did they change gcp 2

its brand new id say 99.9% different

[Bathd23]

that .1 might the part i fell on haha

[anth31]

i hated the one last year, hopefully i like this one we run there in like a month i think

[LEROY]

i hated the one last year, hopefully i like this one we run there in like a month i think

umm its mainly grass loops not opened fields really but high grass that is mowed i think its a little better than GCP 2 but i like GCP 1 i just didnt like gcp 2 bc alexander beat us there 2 yrs ago lol