A Surfeit of National Championships by Herb Wills

 
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In Tallahassee, Florida, there’s a Thomasville Road. It goes to Thomasville, Georgia. Likewise, Crawfordville Road goes to Crawfordville, Miccosukee Road goes to Miccosukee, and the Blountstown Highway will take you to Blountstown. The pattern b...

Now that Pre State is in the books, discussion of Florida high school cross country can become evidence-based, which is one of my favorite things about Pre State. You can say goodbye to conversations like this:

 
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Compared with the previous weekend, the weekend of 4 October 2014 will be a quiet one for cross country in the Panhandle. You could think of the coming weekend as the proverbial lull before the storm, the storm being Pre State at Apalachee Regional Par...

It’s still early in the season, but you could make a case that the boys’ squads from Chiles and Leon are the best cross-country teams in Northwest Florida and possibly the fastest class 3A teams in the state. Those two heavyweights won&rsqu...

After two weeks of Florida’s 2014 high school cross-country season, we’ve already seen quite a lot from the Panhandle athletes. I’d like to see a lot more, of course. I’m greedy that way.Even though they’re figuratively ju...

It's finally here.No more off-season, pre-season, PRE pre-season; the season itself has finally arrived--cross-country season. No more scouting training camps and time trials; no more wild speculation based on last year, track times, or wishful thinkin...

The 2014 cross country season opens soon, the long march to the State Final at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee on November 15. The State Meet isn't the biggest meet at the Apalachee Regional Park Cross-Country Course, though. It isn't even the b...

The campaign has officially begun. In Florida, August 11 was the first day of high school cross country practice for the 2014 season. The champions have already been out piling in the miles, but the date serves as notice that the season is really comin...

Some people vacation in the mountains, some on the coast. Summer is the season when many of Florida's high school distance runners flee to the mountains for a week of training camp, but you'll also find cross-country runners closer to home on the beach...