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Oakton Junior Allie Klimkiewicz is still buzzing from her team’s first state cross country title last fall. She has raced the VHSL 6A State Cross Country Championships every year since she was a freshman, but the team win made this year extra special.
“It feels very unreal,” she said. “We had the talent this year and everything just came together. We all shared [the win] together. I think our team dynamic was really good this year. Everyone just clicked.”
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Feb. 2? Outdoors? Not in the deep south? It seemed like a risk, especially as the week progressed, with a fresh coat of snow and plunging temperatures. On the other hand, unpredictable conditions are part of the sport’s charm, challenge and character.
If you were looking on insight into the New Jersey-hosted Super Bowl XLVIII, you’re in the wrong place. The inaugural First Down 5k managed to luck out with weather and draw a big crowd, fast times and the kind of race that usually comes around months later.
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She knew what “a lap” was, so that was a start.
But how far was a lap? George Mason cross country coach Sita Waru-Ewell had some basic terminology to go over with her new walk-on in 2012.
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Nikeya Green began running when she was just 5, tagging along on her father’s runs to get in shape for his Army physical fitness tests.
“Whenever he would train to get in shape, he would take me out for some of his runs,” she said. “I used to have a bad habit of wanting to start out at a full-out sprint and then I’d be tired, but my dad taught me how to pace myself.”
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0.3 seconds.
That’s how much time separated Chase Weaverling, a senior at Poolesville High School, from the coveted 10th position at the Northeast Footlocker Championships Nov. 30. The top 10 finishers in each of the country’s four divisions -South, Midwest, West and Northeast, held in Van Cortland Park in New York City – advance to the highly touted Footlocker National Championship held in San Diego two weeks later.
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Chris Hoyle, a senior who runs for Gonzaga College High School in Washington, is a team captain who leads by example.
In addition to being the top runner on the team this year, the Oak Hill, Va., resident mentors younger runners, calling them during schools breaks to make sure they’re staying in shape, and tries to create the same inclusive atmosphere he found on the team when he joined as a freshman.
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Alex Corbett inadvertently fell in love with running while running the mile in gym class in middle school.
“That’s when I discovered I had talent,” he recalled during the Ram Invitational at Robinson Secondary School on Dec. 4.
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For most of the 1,300 runners gathered in Fairfax on Dec. 31, a four mile race was less a distraction from their New Year’s Eve plans and more an integral part.
Even for people who haven’t run much. Megan Davisson hasn’t been that attentive to her running since injuring herself during the 2012 Marine Corps Marathon. But with her fifth straight Fairfax Four coming up, she went for it anyway.
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Congratulations of each of the members of our All-RunWashington High School Cross Country postseason team.
Check back here to see profiles of each of the 10 men and women selected by a panel of coaches from around the region.