Re: t-and-f: Short/Long course cross country

[Buck Jones]

Personally, I love the 4k.  But I do understand your wish to see everybody
duke it out in one race.  Honestly, in the u.S. anyway, I think most of the
athletes do the 12k if they want to be in the more competitive race - thus I
don't see the dilution of competition you're concerned about.
As to the 4k being too easy, as you imply with your comment about doing that
as a 12-year-old, puh-leeze...  Even at the U.S. meet last year, in
ankle-deep sucking mud, the leaders went through the 1k in 2:40ish, and some
of them died pretty hard :-) World's is even another level (I would guess).
Any race is hard - if it was easy, you'd run faster!  I'm looking forward to
seeing the first sub-four for 4k xc race :-)
Cheers,
Buck Jones

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