@jedster, our school cross country was probably a mile, given it was on a housing estate. I didn't run it, I cut through the streets and came back at an appropriate time. I've never run more than a mile and that took me 15 minutes. I can't run to save my life.
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holidayloverxx wrote:
@jedster, our school cross country was probably a mile, given it was on a housing estate. I didn't run it, I cut through the streets and came back at an appropriate time. I've never run more than a mile and that took me 15 minutes. I can't run to save my life.
cross country? isn't that something for posh private schools, not sure my inner city comp would have been able to organise that.
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@davidof, I dunno, they called it cross country at my urban secondary modern, probably because we had to cross a bit of waste ground
We used to run around a running track, but they called it running. I think 800 meters was about my limit back then.
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davidof wrote:
holidayloverxx wrote:
@jedster, our school cross country was probably a mile, given it was on a housing estate. I didn't run it, I cut through the streets and came back at an appropriate time. I've never run more than a mile and that took me 15 minutes. I can't run to save my life.
cross country? isn't that something for posh private schools, not sure my inner city comp would have been able to organise that.
Did you not notice the speechmarks around "cross country"? I went to a comp myself.
I still find it utterly bizarre than anyone that is remotely active has never ran 3km. It's two miles. It's a 20 min jog. TWENTY MINUTES. In a lifetime?
@jedster, not everyone wants or likes to run. I ski, canoe, coastal row, hike sometimes, used to cycle tour...never felt the need to run. I only did it that one time because it was a boot camp thing
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@holidayloverxx, +1 I utterly loathe running, though could probably be described as 'remotely active' on a good day.
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@jedster, I have never run 3km. The "cross country" course at my school went near my house so I could walk home, have a coffee, then walk back in the time allowed.
The aerobic component of my ski racing preparation has always been cycling.
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I was bought up in a pit village in Durham. Our village primary school decided to have a cross country run once. At one pont the course descended a pit heap. One girl fell and broke her arm and it was never run again. In those days noone fussed about it. There always seemed to be a least on child in the class with a pot on all the time (different children obviously).
Thinking about it running down pit heaps is probably better ski training than pounding around urban streets.
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rjs wrote:
@jedster, I have never run 3km. The "cross country" course at my school went near my house so I could walk home, have a coffee, then walk back in the time allowed.
I'm reminded of a scout's cross-country race that I somehow managed to get roped into - I cannot remember why, since I hated the annual mandatory event at school. Anyway, it was in our local park, through the woods which I knew very well, and I enjoyed walking for much of the single lap I did, only to then run into the finishing area and find myself given a top ten position. Turns out everyone else had run two laps...
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Well it sounds like I'm wrong to be surprised.
It just seems to me that running is one of those things that the human body has evolved to do and to never have done something so fundamental is strange - clearly not.
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