I’m a cross country runner and honestly, this is spot on. You also get excited when the coaches let you run around on hiking trails playing tag for some reason💀
There’s this one stoplight my team runs by about a mile from the school, so on our way back there’s always a big group and someone always starts a massive game of tag that leads to everyone sprinting and dying but it’s so fun
For my freshman year of highschool, I was in the yearbook class and got put in charge of doing the cross country page, even though I knew nearly nothing about it. I learned that this is in fact it. Almost every one of the people I interviewed said that their favorite things that they did were hills apon hills and the pressure put on them. I got mad respect.
Had a guy in high school quit football because he didn’t like the conditioning. Literally joined cross country a week later. Still confused about that one 12 years later
As a sprinter I did a bunch of workouts with long distance and cross country runners, and my god they go stupid hard. But at least they were impressed I stayed with them the whole way. But I did throw up after each and every work out. Worth it honestly
Cross was something else. Get out of school, go to the locker room, change, then immediately out the door for a mile warmup. Then a huddle just like this. Then a core workout. Then we run to wherever it is we're going to be running. Then we run. Then we run back.
Not even a warm up. Our warm up was literally two miles. Straight out of school. No break, nothing. Then a 30 minute ab work out. Then we would do power lines, or just mile times
definitely me. i was suggested by my coach to do that if it wasn’t during soccer season and when i changed schools it wasn’t so i did it. i also wanted to somewhat honor him cuz he was in the hospital when i left and i didn’t get to see him before i left. i can easily say i was the worst runner haha
Them good ol' days when coach said 45 mins out, 45 mins back on a Monday and we just ran. We'd naturally settled into our groups and tough it out. Half of it was hard work but the other half of a long run was just that sense of adventure running around town or the hills nearby with your friends. If you're in XC, cherish those practices. Practice to win but savor the moment.
Those exploration long runs were the best. That was part of what kept me going, wanting to see what was up ahead of around the next corner. Always a buzzkill when you had to turn around even when knowing where you are and three different ways to get back.
@@highball5550the best parts were running in a general direction than going a different way back, getting lost until you find a spot you recognize and can get back from, and now that’s your favorite route for the next few weeks
As a cross country runner in high school, I can confirm that the only difference between this and my practice is that we have an ex-marine as our coach
Bro my coach was an ex marine as well. He would yell so loud at us we never knew he was yelling at so everyone would pick up their pace in practice just so we didn't have to hear him keep yelling at us 😅😅
@@michaelperez7677 same here bro we're at the point where as soon as we hear someone say "can't" everyone starts doing pushups just so we don't have to hear her scream it
@lucascousins6934 we used to get push ups for cursing. Sometimes we would catch ourselves after they tell us "push ups" and we would curse again out of realization just to get even more push ups lol. Oh how I miss waking up at 5am and go run hills and watch the sunrise
I remember witnessing a conversation between a collegiate cross country runner and two Army Rangers as they talked shop about running. It was enlightening.
I understand this, but our team was a bunch of skallywaggs. One check in after we had all changed, then they let you loose and you just honor systemed your way 75% of the time. Occasionally they'd check in on the trail here and snd there, but there was a few places almost everyone shortcut haha. A lot of us had different amounts we were told to run and had to increase that slowly, while the better ones were doing a set amount, but were being pushed to get that time down. The warmup mile and sprints on hills was accurate too. Years later they did some construction and made the hill shorter and way less steep at the top so now i can be an old head and say "back in my day that hill was twice as tall, and twice as steep!" But i promised myself id never walk that hill and ive always runned it! Im proud of myself for that
As a HS cross country runner everyone on my team felt the complete opposite, everyone would cheat the second they got would prob explain why we were bad. 😂😂😂
@@jesst_a_frogya same. freshman year I was running 10 minute miles 😅 by junior year I’d gotten more in shape and broken my mile time with 5:50. I wasn’t the best on the team by far, but it felt good to improve that much
As an Ex Cross Country runner I still remember these days… literally last year- I decided to do Tennis this year tho and enjoyed it much more- also in Track I never once did distance because it was incredibly painful… Cross Country was so rewarding but also so incredibly painful, and honestly the people were all amazing to hang out with as well, and I STILL feel angry when people say “oh Cross Country isn’t THAT hard” Yea every sports punishment is Cross Country’s whole sport- just let that sink in…
I remember I had to run stadiums a few times back when I played football in highschool, I was dying visibly and out of no where this girl from the cross country team ran up next to me and said “your punishment is our sport” and then left me in the dust😂🤦♂️
AA I JUST JOINED CROSS COUNTRY AND MY FIRST MEET WAS A 27:58 AND MY SECOND WAS YESTERDAY WITH A LOT OF HILLS AND I GOT A 27:42. I love it so far, and my respect for runners has gone through the roof. Honestly props to everyone who runs consistently (Edit) 3.1 miles and I ended the season with a 24:56 on my third and final meet
Hills are brutal during these races. Had one where the two biggest hills were right after each other and at the end of the race. First hill is not too steep but felt incredibly long. Hill right after was filled with pot holes, shorter, but very steep. The biggest gut punch other than these hills being at the end of the race was that before you get to it you go down a steep hill and must do a 90 degree turn. This means you can’t use any of that built up momentum because you risk falling over during the turn. It forces you to slow way down, which at least to me, makes you feel how tired you are all at once. On the up side, you had lots or people cheering everyone up during this section of the race and even put some motivational music to give you that extra push needed for the hill.
How is track? I'm considering joining my school team this year. I do weightlifting right now and I enjoy it, but I know *running* in the sweltering heat will be much different 😅
@@DimeKLP I love it so much, but that’s just me, some people don’t like running around in a circle for fun tho lol, but I think you should try it, it’s amazing.
At first I hated the thought of running for cross country but when I did it I enjoyed it? It was weird bc it hurts in the moment but you feel amazing after. And also you feel healthier too and you keep wanting to run more and more. It’s super weird. And you keep wanting difficult courses and stuff. Meets are always painful but the urge to not stop is so bad that I end up feeling like I want to throw up when it ends. When the season ends you feel so lazy and you always feel the urge to run even though it’s over.
The past conference meet I ran, It was 40 degrees, with it raining and 40 mph gusts of wind. Also had been raining for 48 hours so the course might as well have been a lake at some points lol
The boys cross country coach is creepy af at our school 🤣 He says,"Come on boys, take your shirts off and let's run into the woods!" Man is a bit suspicious He's also bald and around 50
as a middle schooler who has been doing cross country we cant relate. we race every tuesday and Thursdays and Friday we practice. We run 2miles for racing and on Thursdays. Fridays we run 5laps (5laps=1mile 10laps=2miles) we run laps around my school but Friday after the 5laps we legit work out to become body builders..
We fr do be built different. We're the reining state champs for the the past 4 years. But this year our coach is going too hard. Of 15 girl runners, 10 are out and injured. I'm a part of that, and even though I'm not supposed to be running, I am anyway. Gotta love xc!!
Old fogey here (38m) but yeah. In high school I ran 2 seasons under circumstances I really shouldn't have. I got shin splints so bad (my leg muscles pulled so hard that they started breaking off pieces of the bond) my junior year that I got a stress fracture at sectionals. I literally finished the Race on a broken leg that was so broken down that it shattered.
Indeed this is very true I can confirm. As a cross country kid as well as most my friends we are the ones you hear in the front chanting MILE MILE MILE MILE
I'm an incoming freshman to xc, and we're doing summer conditioning. This is already really accurate. All of the other sports teams will complain about it being too hot at 85 degrees, and us xc runners are over here in 100-degree weather like "F%ck yeah, we don't have to run on CONCRETE!!" Some people love running on concrete, but I don't, I like the good ol' gravel and dirt
Today at my meet (3mile race) we ran past a football practice, and I heard a kid say I could run three miles easily! It made me so mad I wanted to yell “YOU IDIOT, ITS HARD!” And keep in mind it was a 95 degree day! Everyone did so bad and felt bad even one girl fell to her knees in front of me and started screaming (lots of girls broke down and started crying as well) anyways those people who have the audacity to say something like that really piss me off 😊
Dawg my coach would kill me if i broke down mid practice. It would be 120 degrees and wed have to sprint constantly and if he hears one word of complaining, he'll double it. Then again, that isnt cross country.
Bro it sounds like your team just kinda sucked, my team practices in 95+ degrees with 80% humidity, and when we're tired we just slow down or man up, breaking down and crying over a 3 mile race is pretty odd
As a long distance runner who only works out for the conditioning and martial arts performance, I’d be down to join them. Also, that’s definitely me, not just cross-country people.
@@eventingthedude I’m probably the dumbest person ever ngl, for some reason I keep forgetting my water in the locker room, we be running miles in 90 degree weather 💀
it is so hard on your knees as well, you'd be running on pavement or gravel for like 5 kilometers during the races and 5-7 miles at practice. that's why I only lasted a season and a half.
Can confirm, though that was due to lack of stretching. One of the best decisions I made senior year was to stop wearing spikes. First couple races killed my flat feet and I ran like crap. Trainers on that hard Oklahoma ground made all the difference.
I’m in cross country, and some track kids were being snarky, saying that they could run longer. I invited them over to do a 5 mile run with me, and who would’ve thought they dropped out the first mile.
Sprinters: “I bet I can run faster than you”
Cross country runners:
*“let’s run until we die”*
As a cross-country runner, I can relate.
Sounds about right
For real like all the sprinted look at us during practice and their like I can easily do that and I’m like bet let’s race
Exactly
I cant do that lol, tried running just 2k and almost died- second year running cross country tho
Track kids: let’s see who sprints faster
Cross country kids: Let’s see who can last longer without water
PFFFF
STAY HARD
@@justaddwater1776I am and I can't stop please help
@@boochin It's been 15 hours, hope u got that sorted, if not go to a doctor immediately
horribly accurate
I’m a cross country runner and honestly, this is spot on. You also get excited when the coaches let you run around on hiking trails playing tag for some reason💀
My coach always let up play sharks and minos
There’s this one stoplight my team runs by about a mile from the school, so on our way back there’s always a big group and someone always starts a massive game of tag that leads to everyone sprinting and dying but it’s so fun
@@Imaanonymouscupcake Same. Do you know smiles?
Infection was the best on trails
This was the BEST day of summer practice
Coach: “we’re running into the next county and back on dirt roads!”
Us: YEA!!!!!
That sounds awesome signed me up.
Dirt roads are way better. More cushion for your feet atleast😂
I love gravel roads.
As a kid I thought thats what they did, thats why its called cross-COUNTRY
Always down for a dirt road run
For my freshman year of highschool, I was in the yearbook class and got put in charge of doing the cross country page, even though I knew nearly nothing about it. I learned that this is in fact it. Almost every one of the people I interviewed said that their favorite things that they did were hills apon hills and the pressure put on them. I got mad respect.
I’m a cross country runner and this is so accurate it’s scary💀
Me too and I agree
Same 😭
Yea it’s terrifying
Bruh same
Same…
Had a guy in high school quit football because he didn’t like the conditioning. Literally joined cross country a week later. Still confused about that one 12 years later
I do cross country and i don’t understand why bro did that
Footall conditioning is litterly cross country the sport??? Why tf would he switch.
Sounds like someone just didn’t like football lmao
Maybe he didn't like the conditioning with the pads but still wanted to be fit? That's all I can think of
Probably got "initiated" with a blind side. 😂
As a sprinter I did a bunch of workouts with long distance and cross country runners, and my god they go stupid hard. But at least they were impressed I stayed with them the whole way. But I did throw up after each and every work out. Worth it honestly
At my first freshman practice, my XC said if you need to vomit, vomit, then continue running.
The shorts are the only short part about long distance 😂
The shorts part was definitely the MOST accurate
It was lol
Their so short bro, underwear be like, " mhm how yall doin
@@Slayer21- simple solution. freeball.
Fr
You must show at least half of your ass to the losers to establish dominance.
Cross was something else. Get out of school, go to the locker room, change, then immediately out the door for a mile warmup. Then a huddle just like this. Then a core workout. Then we run to wherever it is we're going to be running. Then we run. Then we run back.
Hell. Yes.
Similar after school day but we don’t have a core workout.
Sounds like a whole lot of FUCK THAT to me🥴🥴
Not even a warm up. Our warm up was literally two miles. Straight out of school. No break, nothing. Then a 30 minute ab work out. Then we would do power lines, or just mile times
this! lolol
as a xc runner this is horribly accurate
I run XC as well and this is kinda scary how accurate it is.
I did to, it was 50 50. I was one of these people but some were just there for fun. What was your PRs?
I can tell you are a runner because you said “a xc” instead of “an xc”.
My mile pr was 7:30 except I am just starting my journey
@@KadeGoertz That’s a great start
*That one new kid in the back that joined cross country for conditioning*
"I'm sorry, WHAT💀"
Not to be THAT person but holy shit 11k likes? God damn
deadass me freshman year, i ain’t no quitter but i fasho wanted to😂 after that first 4 mile run i didn’t know if i even wanted to hoop anymore
@@loganfromme888 lol
definitely me. i was suggested by my coach to do that if it wasn’t during soccer season and when i changed schools it wasn’t so i did it. i also wanted to somewhat honor him cuz he was in the hospital when i left and i didn’t get to see him before i left.
i can easily say i was the worst runner haha
Me 😅
Dead ass some kid did that in our team and dropped in the middle of our state sectionals race
Them good ol' days when coach said 45 mins out, 45 mins back on a Monday and we just ran. We'd naturally settled into our groups and tough it out. Half of it was hard work but the other half of a long run was just that sense of adventure running around town or the hills nearby with your friends. If you're in XC, cherish those practices. Practice to win but savor the moment.
Those exploration long runs were the best. That was part of what kept me going, wanting to see what was up ahead of around the next corner. Always a buzzkill when you had to turn around even when knowing where you are and three different ways to get back.
@@mylifeisJDM when we run, you are with the fast runners or you are not running there are no groups for my cross country
@@highball5550the best parts were running in a general direction than going a different way back, getting lost until you find a spot you recognize and can get back from, and now that’s your favorite route for the next few weeks
💯✊🦾
It was never about the running, it was about the friends we made along the way.
right. running sucks, lol
But this is true
A long way to make friends, you better be famous by the end of the run.
Literally only way I got through practice tbh 😂
It was all for the shorts we found along the way
In 2007 my coach told us we all better hit the 500 mile club over summer break or don’t even bother coming back 💀
How would he know
@@KylerPeltier usually we ran in groups or pairs and had to log it.
@@SquirrellyDan88 just run with your buddy and write down false miles lol he'd never know
@@KylerPeltier oh we did 😂we’d run like 5 miles say it was 10 and call it a day
Dang, my coach doesn't want us to run too many miles over the summer or else we'll plateau during the season
As a cross country runner in high school, I can confirm that the only difference between this and my practice is that we have an ex-marine as our coach
Hell nah, atleast my coach shows mercy
I have a bald man
Bro my coach was an ex marine as well. He would yell so loud at us we never knew he was yelling at so everyone would pick up their pace in practice just so we didn't have to hear him keep yelling at us 😅😅
@@michaelperez7677 same here bro we're at the point where as soon as we hear someone say "can't" everyone starts doing pushups just so we don't have to hear her scream it
@lucascousins6934 we used to get push ups for cursing. Sometimes we would catch ourselves after they tell us "push ups" and we would curse again out of realization just to get even more push ups lol. Oh how I miss waking up at 5am and go run hills and watch the sunrise
I hate running with a burning passion and yet I still love cross country
I remember witnessing a conversation between a collegiate cross country runner and two Army Rangers as they talked shop about running.
It was enlightening.
“Little longer then last year” what were they wearing last year? THONGS ?! 😅😂
The shorter the shorts, the faster you run
Thats xc for u
gotta do what u gotta do 💀
If they could get away with it, all meets would be run ancient Greek style.
My team captain in highschool would find the shortest pair that didn't have a liner... let's just say things got aired out plenty 😂😂😂
I can confirm that this is real footage of a practice. It’s scary how accurate it is as a cross country runner
scary wrong. its opposite this.
agreed
@@zillatattooyeah most of my team acts like they hate running, and I’m like why did you do this sport then?
they the type of ppl to remind the teacher the 12 page essay was due today 😭😭
the football and basketball kid know who they jumping after that
We didn’t do it, we were running instead
Or if we did do it, we did it on the way to class
Nah running takes away all of our energy so we don’t care for school as much
Ironically at my school the CC runners are the cool guys and girls who dont give af about the homework
Nah I run xcountry and I slack in my work and had a 69 in math once from not doing my work
I understand this, but our team was a bunch of skallywaggs. One check in after we had all changed, then they let you loose and you just honor systemed your way 75% of the time. Occasionally they'd check in on the trail here and snd there, but there was a few places almost everyone shortcut haha. A lot of us had different amounts we were told to run and had to increase that slowly, while the better ones were doing a set amount, but were being pushed to get that time down. The warmup mile and sprints on hills was accurate too. Years later they did some construction and made the hill shorter and way less steep at the top so now i can be an old head and say "back in my day that hill was twice as tall, and twice as steep!" But i promised myself id never walk that hill and ive always runned it! Im proud of myself for that
The coach wearing chicken legs is the best part
As a HS cross country runner everyone on my team felt the complete opposite, everyone would cheat the second they got would prob explain why we were bad. 😂😂😂
Same
I was so slow when I started, even the ones who were cheating were faster than me 🤦
@@jesst_a_frogya same. freshman year I was running 10 minute miles 😅
by junior year I’d gotten more in shape and broken my mile time with 5:50. I wasn’t the best on the team by far, but it felt good to improve that much
@@kmmz4445yup, that progress is addicting, started freshman with a 30 min 5k and halfway through my junior season, today, I ran a 19:53
@@kmmz4445lol I walked a 10 minute mile in highschool how tf did you manage to run a 10😂🙏
As a cross country kid, you feel like quitting so many times during your career to the point where you eventually get tired of the pain and ignore it.
thats some real ass shit right there
I like long distance running though. So I put up with it
Accurate. Last year was my first season, and that’s so true.
As a former DII cross country runner, I rarely ever felt like quitting
@@ezekielanderson9055Sad you didn’t get the whole Cross experience then 😔. LolZ.
😭no bc my XC literally had a meeting like this. We literally convinced our coach to let us do an hour and half run! Very accurate
Bro 💀
Id be beggin for my coach to let me in the weight room
Those are rookie numbers. We gotta bump those up
LITERALLY!!!
It’s good for you to exercise 😂 well done guys
American XC is something else
This is so accurate 😭
I’m confused on how this comment has no comments but 1.1k likes
@@PleaseNo720because there's nothing interesting to say
You people scare me… I can’t imagine how someone could enjoy movement
As an Ex Cross Country runner I still remember these days… literally last year- I decided to do Tennis this year tho and enjoyed it much more- also in Track I never once did distance because it was incredibly painful… Cross Country was so rewarding but also so incredibly painful, and honestly the people were all amazing to hang out with as well, and I STILL feel angry when people say “oh Cross Country isn’t THAT hard”
Yea every sports punishment is Cross Country’s whole sport- just let that sink in…
Crosscountry runners are just a different breed and this is coming from a Crosscountry runner.❤😂
I remember I had to run stadiums a few times back when I played football in highschool, I was dying visibly and out of no where this girl from the cross country team ran up next to me and said “your punishment is our sport” and then left me in the dust😂🤦♂️
Cold blooded LOL
She killed you right then and there
Classic line. Had that on our CC shirts in 2000.
I have that line on a sweatshirt 😂
Should’ve told her to do it with pads on
I am a cross country athlete and this is straight facts
Lol how? You get addicted?
I mean it’s obviously an exaggeration to some degree, but it’s a little alarming considering it’s not that much of an exaggeration…
The enthusiasm
I feel like the worse it is the louder we cheer 😂
Cross Country Runners: 🏃♂️=👌
Me: Runs For 10 Minutes.... 💀
AA I JUST JOINED CROSS COUNTRY AND MY FIRST MEET WAS A 27:58 AND MY SECOND WAS YESTERDAY WITH A LOT OF HILLS AND I GOT A 27:42. I love it so far, and my respect for runners has gone through the roof. Honestly props to everyone who runs consistently
(Edit) 3.1 miles and I ended the season with a 24:56 on my third and final meet
XC is magical. I miss those days. Welcome!
good job, my first race I felt like I was gonna die Lol.
Hills are brutal during these races. Had one where the two biggest hills were right after each other and at the end of the race. First hill is not too steep but felt incredibly long. Hill right after was filled with pot holes, shorter, but very steep. The biggest gut punch other than these hills being at the end of the race was that before you get to it you go down a steep hill and must do a 90 degree turn. This means you can’t use any of that built up momentum because you risk falling over during the turn. It forces you to slow way down, which at least to me, makes you feel how tired you are all at once. On the up side, you had lots or people cheering everyone up during this section of the race and even put some motivational music to give you that extra push needed for the hill.
I JUST GOT A 24:56 THIS MORNING
@@oreo7486 Congrats, thats like over 3 minutes improvement.
I’m pretty sure Saturday is the day of the “meets.”
Sometimes it is. Other times we have it on Tuesday and Thursday
I’m on my way to one rn😭it’s also 4:50am😐
@jlsorrell717 I have mine on Thursday’s
We had them on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
I have my meets on Saturday and wensday
I ran cross country 8th grade and this is straight facts, I switched to track for 9th and 10th and I’m doing it again this year, it’s so different
How is track? I'm considering joining my school team this year. I do weightlifting right now and I enjoy it, but I know *running* in the sweltering heat will be much different 😅
@@DimeKLP I love it so much, but that’s just me, some people don’t like running around in a circle for fun tho lol, but I think you should try it, it’s amazing.
@@anglehornn1 Nice! Thanks for the encouragement!
@@DimeKLP of course! Good luck!!
Isnt track and cross as two different times, my school is.
I’m a cross country runner and this is sooo true
At first I hated the thought of running for cross country but when I did it I enjoyed it? It was weird bc it hurts in the moment but you feel amazing after. And also you feel healthier too and you keep wanting to run more and more. It’s super weird. And you keep wanting difficult courses and stuff. Meets are always painful but the urge to not stop is so bad that I end up feeling like I want to throw up when it ends. When the season ends you feel so lazy and you always feel the urge to run even though it’s over.
I love running cross country
Says no one
@@ledbread8497Except cross country runners because they’re actually capable of doing it.
I love running it too.
We run for fun
@@Linkathonagreed
"Boutta hit a new max"
"Lesgo bro"
*50 lbs on the bench*
Funny that you think xc guys bench
Bench? On XC? 💀💀
@@nb2078exactly. Where’s the bench 💀
As a cross country runner I can vouch for this. 100% accurate
Goggins would be proud 😂
Yall are a different fucking breed istg
"I also got your race shorts,.... they're a little longer than last year" wdym longer 😭
They show our underwear bro. We wear basically nothing In 50 degree weather
Sometimes 40 degree weather.
The past conference meet I ran, It was 40 degrees, with it raining and 40 mph gusts of wind. Also had been raining for 48 hours so the course might as well have been a lake at some points lol
@@AlexKoleczek Black river champion meet?
@@AlexKoleczek2 Celsius for me
Me as a XC runner wondering how they got these clips of us: 😰😰😰
oh my god why is this so accurate
but when you get hurt its “CMON WHOS GONNA CARRY THE BOATS!!”
Dude that the saying on my conference championship shirt. My team won tho 🎉
But what about the logs
@@_quixote back to working out 🤣
I loved complimenting my friend back in high school on his booty shorts
The boys cross country coach is creepy af at our school 🤣
He says,"Come on boys, take your shirts off and let's run into the woods!" Man is a bit suspicious
He's also bald and around 50
And we have so many hills it's awful
Luckily he is the boy coach. Hope he isn’t actually creepy
This makes me miss CC so bad. Thanks for the motivation!!
as an xc runner, this is strangely accurate
I just had a meet this morning and this is so accurate it’s scary 😂
So did I!
Yo me too!
Was it at peoria
Me too lmao
@@legodarthvader6629 Fork Union invite VA
as a middle schooler who has been doing cross country we cant relate. we race every tuesday and Thursdays and Friday we practice. We run 2miles for racing and on Thursdays. Fridays we run 5laps (5laps=1mile 10laps=2miles) we run laps around my school but Friday after the 5laps we legit work out to become body builders..
I haven’t run distance in years but but can confirm that running til you almost die is somehow fun
We fr do be built different. We're the reining state champs for the the past 4 years. But this year our coach is going too hard. Of 15 girl runners, 10 are out and injured. I'm a part of that, and even though I'm not supposed to be running, I am anyway. Gotta love xc!!
Almost the same for us. 3 year reigning state Champs but rn, over half of our 30 or so guys are sick or injured
What state if you don’t mind me askin
@Squeb texas. Also we are a 5A school ( I don't know if you meant my comment or the original one)
@@AquaB33 gasp. my competition O-O
You Strava?
Old fogey here (38m) but yeah. In high school I ran 2 seasons under circumstances I really shouldn't have.
I got shin splints so bad (my leg muscles pulled so hard that they started breaking off pieces of the bond) my junior year that I got a stress fracture at sectionals. I literally finished the Race on a broken leg that was so broken down that it shattered.
BAHAH THIS IS RHE BOYS ON MY TEAM 😭😭
Indeed this is very true I can confirm. As a cross country kid as well as most my friends we are the ones you hear in the front chanting MILE MILE MILE MILE
I'm an incoming freshman to xc, and we're doing summer conditioning. This is already really accurate. All of the other sports teams will complain about it being too hot at 85 degrees, and us xc runners are over here in 100-degree weather like "F%ck yeah, we don't have to run on CONCRETE!!"
Some people love running on concrete, but I don't, I like the good ol' gravel and dirt
Yeah I run XC. You’ll love the dirt more and more as the season goes on
hills actually made me quit cross country and switch to track lmao
Why is it so true tho💀💀💀
As a fellow XC runner, I can't explain this phenomenon
This checks out for my team cuz we're in colorado
Same lol
Today at my meet (3mile race) we ran past a football practice, and I heard a kid say I could run three miles easily! It made me so mad I wanted to yell “YOU IDIOT, ITS HARD!” And keep in mind it was a 95 degree day! Everyone did so bad and felt bad even one girl fell to her knees in front of me and started screaming (lots of girls broke down and started crying as well) anyways those people who have the audacity to say something like that really piss me off 😊
Your entire sport is just the conditioning for wrestling
Dawg my coach would kill me if i broke down mid practice. It would be 120 degrees and wed have to sprint constantly and if he hears one word of complaining, he'll double it. Then again, that isnt cross country.
Bro it sounds like your team just kinda sucked, my team practices in 95+ degrees with 80% humidity, and when we're tired we just slow down or man up, breaking down and crying over a 3 mile race is pretty odd
@@USAwrestling639I’ve done both, and believe me, XC is wayyy harder
They broke down and cried because of a 3 mile run in >100 degrees? Did they forget to drink water and eat food for the last three days or something
Cross Country runner, and yeah, this is probably one of the most accurate videos I’ve seen in a while
God this made me miss XC so damn much 🥺 appreciate these days and continue those miles for as long as you can 🖤🦾
Coach: "you're going to get girls"
Dudes on cross country team: "aweweeeee😢"
They want the track athletes. Not the XC runners
js joined cross country this year and this is so accurate 😭
as i cross country runner, i begged my coach to move up my mileage
Yep. Then halfway through we are offering to buy the coach ice cream in exchange for a less intense practice.
As a cross country runner I can confirm this is how my team reacts
Accurate as hell
Yo i swear I just got done with practice and this had me dying 😂
I can say from experience that yes this is insanely accurate 😭
As a long distance runner who only works out for the conditioning and martial arts performance, I’d be down to join them.
Also, that’s definitely me, not just cross-country people.
I run Cross Country and I hate short shorts so much that I wear my own shorts to meets 😂
Cross country runners are terrifying. School would get out and they would run for 2 hours before rehearsal for the musical started
It's even worse when you get there early to run, then go and do marching band for an hour or 2 and then get to class
@@snap.-_-I do the same thing but after school
I hate running hills 😭
I ran CC too. This wasn't my team though lol
Xc u mean?
I have seen so mang abreviations i really dont know anymore. Pls tell me if im wrong
@@sejal19747 no, CC. We didn't use letters that didn't actually begin the word when I ran. It's not spelled Xross
@@guywillis1281 ok, just asking
@@guywillis1281 that's what my team shirts say. ______ middle school xc team
As a fellow cross country runner I feel this
I’m a xc runner and this is so true like.. it’s scary how relatable this is 😅
this makes me want to join cross country
On my first day we ran a mile just as a warm up, next day was the worst…
I love mile warm ups lol I was in cross country for two years though😂I plan on joining again next year
@@eventingthedude I’m probably the dumbest person ever ngl, for some reason I keep forgetting my water in the locker room, we be running miles in 90 degree weather 💀
@@giolopez-2428 My coach always tells us water is for the weak if we drink water during our runs💀He wants us to wait until we are done lol
@@eventingthedude yeah same but I still can’t drink water because I ALWAYS LEAVE MY DAMN WATER IN THE LOCKER 💀💀💀
@@eventingthedudethat’s insane. Every mile we climb up this horrible hill and then get water.
This is the most relatable short I’ve ever seen
We're not running hills on saturday... we're running mountains on Saturday!!!!!😢
it is so hard on your knees as well, you'd be running on pavement or gravel for like 5 kilometers during the races and 5-7 miles at practice. that's why I only lasted a season and a half.
Can confirm, though that was due to lack of stretching. One of the best decisions I made senior year was to stop wearing spikes. First couple races killed my flat feet and I ran like crap. Trainers on that hard Oklahoma ground made all the difference.
Cross Country is a advanced form of self harm.
That one dude in sunglasses is the kid that joined just for conditioning
Bro this is just like my practice plans from the coach😂😂😂
I’m in cross country, and some track kids were being snarky, saying that they could run longer. I invited them over to do a 5 mile run with me, and who would’ve thought they dropped out the first mile.
I did enjoy the longer runs.
This is so accurate the coaches always be making us happy
THE SHORTS ARE SO ACCURATE
As cross country starting this year I love this video😂
Bro I just ran my first cross country meet today and the races are so much harder than practice
Also our shorts are really high to
Cross country kids/adults are so underrated and under appreciated. The sheer stamina and endurance to to all of that running is crazy 💀.
I love this. As an XC kid this is so real.
Swear I would complain about a two mile cross country meet then tell someone that we did a casual five miles at practice
Wrestling Practice: Am I a joke to you?
Add in some CrossFit and this is spot on 😂 miss those days
Honestly that guy kinda sounds like my XC coach