Girls 5k Championship - Nike Cross Regional Midwest 2024 [Full Replay]

[@Philobiblion]

This is really great commentary compared to a lot of cross commentary today. Great camera, great production values and great announcers. I believe that now we are living in the House that Katelyn Built, similar, on a much smaller scale, to the Caitlin Clark phenomenon, where we are now seeing a flourishing of all the Tweenies who watched KT as children, just as basketball has seen a resurgence following in the wake of Caitlin Clark, who may turn out to be the greatest ambassador yet for girls sports, ever.

[@lvega5606]

Watching these races makes me miss running high school cross country. And college cross country, for that matter. Fun times. To all current school runners, enjoy every moment; it goes by so fast!

[@jonaslhd]

Great video production and commentary! World class!! Thank you

[@barneyschlumpf4257]

This cross racing tracks looking cool i wish i knew anything compareable here in germany for my training.

[@Philobiblion]

I only realized I had a love for XC when I started running around the perimeter of the local golf corse, and was able to understand the experience, at least a bit.

[@pbnotj1]

Golf course was the course at university of Minnesota. See if you can find one that will let you run the edges :-)

[@thuggoe]

fantastic race

[@rodbrown8306]

1+ 2 ran brilliantly. good race between those two girls.

[@bdub-j1f]

Was Mia Sirois holding back? 1min behind her Illinois State performance.

[@raymondlewis1830]

Her state performance was 15:53.4 for 3 miles and yesterday was 16:57 for 5k, on a much more difficult course. I would probably argue her NXR race was more impressive than her state race. She didn't have to race anyone in Illinois all year and in this race, essentially her first 'race', she made almost all the moves and surges and forced the other girls to cover. Even though Mia didn't win it was a fantastic effort.

[@bdub-j1f]

@@raymondlewis1830 its exciting to watch her. so young and filled with talent. very exciting

[@raymondlewis1830]

@@bdub-j1f Can't wait to see how she does in Portland!

[@imfexy2]

i'm confused...are these not high school meets? why are there "clubs" vs. "schools". sorry for the dumb question

[@floppybird]

@@imfexy2 NXR is after most states cross country state meet, so in order to join you have to be a club because the team isn’t in season anymore

[@thepixalking6589]

They are high schoolers. They just rebrand the HS team name to something similar usually and run as an indy team. UIL issues I guess.

[@machineofadream]

So, up until fairly recently, there was no national XC championship that included real teams. It was just Foot Locker for many years, which was individuals competing to be on a "team" of their region. Nike Cross is a way to give actual teams a chance to compete nationally, but the schools don't officially have anything to do with it. The kids have to register their own teams.

[@imfexy2]

@ ah. Thanks. So footlocker must be not doing so well