The History Of Cross Country By David Tiefenthaler

The roots of rodeo trace back to the Spanish settling California and becoming cattle ranchers. The vaqueros skills were learned and passed down to the American cowboys who was keen on accomplishing the skills of the Spaniards. These abilities were passed down easily because the frontier territories were heavily expanding after the civil war. In the late 1800s, the

After working they would go back to coach and run from four, six, eight, or even ten miles and would have to run back home. Their parents worked very hard but barely had enough to manage the house, all of the runners ran with just schools shoes. The school eventually had the funds to buy each of the runners a pair of shoes. Arax went on and stated “With runners drawn from farmworker families too poor to buy racing shoes, the McFarland High cross-country team has won five state titles in a row, a feat unmatched in any sport by any high school in California. They've beaten the rich kids from Carmel Valley and the surfer kids from Laguna Beach. They've beaten prep schools, suburban schools, Indian reservation schools and the big boys from L.A.” Everyone is probably amazed, look at that they beat all those schools in order for them to capture state not once but several of times. They don't practice in what you call the best conditions but around the fields they live in and next to those fields is a big dairy farm that of course has a bad small but they manage to run past it. Mcfarland goes by the poorest cities of California with not just by the economical status but how most of the kids are

He started Cross Country due to his friends introducing it to him. During his freshman year, O’Brien struggled for the first few weeks with getting used to the sport after he made it part of his life. However, by his sophomore year, he had already made Cross Country part of his daily lifestyle.

The ancient sport of horse racing dates back thousands of years. The concept was created by Central Asian nomadic tribesmen who were the first to domesticate horses. Horse racing has been in organized sport around the world from the beginning of recorded history.

Starting with the simplest of differences; in track you throw a sixteen-pound ball while in football the ball is about one pound. The implement that is used in track is a sphere that has is a little bit larger than your palm. While in football the ball is an inflated, elongated oval that has points at each end of the ball. Also in football, with the position that I play, I can’t legally carry the ball while in track I have to throw the implement. With one of the similarities between track and football being the team aspect, but the difference is that track is all individual events while football is one big event. Track is a sport that has individuals fill roles in a single event, but football has a team of eleven players working together all at once. Another difference between the two sports is how points are acquired. In football you are able to acquire points at any time throughout the event. You can score point such as one point, two points, three points, or six points depending on how your team decides to score. On the other hand, in track it’s only after each event is over, and the points are awarded to which place you get in your event. First place gets ten points and the point decrease the worse you place in your event. Also you score points as a team working together in football, and on the other hand in track you score points individually which add up to a team’s score.

Jim White noticed that the teenagers are amazingly good at running, so he decided to form a team of cross-country.

Today I would like to inform you about the benefits of running, along with the different formats of running races, both in high school, and out of high school.

Track and Field events, also known as athletics, have progressed a great deal since their birth in Olympus, around the ninth century B.C. More athletes and more nationalities compete in Track and Field than in any other Olympic sport. Athletics is one of the largest attractions at the Modern Olympics, drawing in huge crowds of spectators and creating interest at summer Olympics. Track and Field events have come a long way since the Ancient Greek Olympic games. Many events and techniques have been revised, added, or eliminated since the original Greek Olympics. The Olympic motto, “Citius, Altius, Fortius” is describing the Track and Field events in Latin. The Latin means “ Faster (Swifter), Higher, Stronger,” and indicates the running,

Focusing on the track portion of the sport, it seems like cross country but there are many aspects of it that’s it different. The workouts dealing with track focus more on the weight lifting then the actual stretching. Track deals with more sprinting since most the events in track go only for a short distance that call for sprinting. Since these are only short distances and that there are so many events that athletes can do the numbers for competitors aren’t as huge. With each event having a set number of competitors, track is not as a team oriented sport. To go farther it relies mostly on the person doing the event, with only having the exception of relay races with three other

I had heard about the running club about being advertised through via email. I wanted to see what it was always about because I’ve been wanting to get back in shape. So, I decided to go to the meeting to try it out to see if this would be something that I want to do. The meeting was supposedly held outside of Rinker in the pit. I was actually very excited to go that day because of the anticipation piling up as the time got closer.

Because cross country is only one event, it has a smaller team of anywhere from one to seven runners for varsity, but the race itself has anywhere from 50 to 200 runners. A track team can have up to 60 runners on varsity, but the race will only have about eight to fifteen competitors. Due to the different number of competitors in the two sports, the awards and scoring vary. Since cross country has so many competitors, the top ten to twenty runners will receive an award that is usually a t-shirt. Sadly, track does not have as many winners in each event.

Throughout my high school career, I have been a varsity member on the cross country team. At practice and outside of practice, I have the opportunity to run several trails and gravel roads in my community. This is due to the fact that you cover quite a few miles throughout the cross country season. Cross country meets take place at several different golf courses, and the views are gorgeous. Even as you run, it’s easy to forget your performance nerves and be calmed by the green foliage and nature. The scenery is absolutely breath taking. Since cross country races are so long, I would occasionally reach a point in the race where I find myself completely alone along the race path, and you get this feeling of freedom. It takes your mind

I really just hate cross country. Well, that’s a great way to start a writing. Let’s back up a little bit to get started. I can’t say that I actually hate cross country, because that would be a lie. I do enjoy some aspects of the sport, like spending time with my friends, and the feeling of personal achievement. To be more specific, I don’t like running, but who does? Don’t answer that question. I actually know plenty of people that love running.

Cross Country involves many things such as rules, uniforms, and positions. First, a couple rules are no physical contact, no cheating, and no talking back. Second, for cross country everyone has to have a uniform. You would wear a jersey with your logo on it, so the event workers and people/competitors know who you are. Then you need running shoes. A pair of shorts you can run in. Third, if your in 5th grade you would go first. They go youngest to oldest all the way to 8th grade. So from each grade all the girls in 5th grade would run the course then the boys. Then they switch to a different grade. Sometimes for a bigger race girls and boys run together. Based on this information theses are the main pieces of cross country.

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