The homepage for the Chesapeake High School Cross Country Team has been moved to Are you good enough to compete in Cross Country.
These Chesapeake High School students are and they do it well.
In addition, they maintain high scholastic averages. Check the
number of Scholar Atheletes on the team. Cross Country running is a very demanding sport. The participants
run 5 kilometer (3.1 mile) races over all kinds of terrain and
in all kinds of weather. The terrain varies from the relatively
flat course at Chesapeake HIgh School to the mountain running course
at Hereford High School. The weather varies from the hot humid
weather of August to the rainy, mud slogging and sliding of October,
to the brisk weather of November. Cross Country is a team sport. Having the fastest runner in the
state doesn't guarantee that you will win a meet. The score is
based on the times of the first five runners on a team to complete
the race. Cross country running was a neccesity before the days of airplanes
and cars and horses. To name a couple of instances the ancient
Greeks and the Incas used runners to carry messages of major importance
between towns. (Can you imagine running over the mountains in South
America?) As a competitive sport, cross country running
began in England in the early 19th century as a game called "hare and hounds".
The "hare" would start out ahead of the "hounds" and
drop pieces of paper for the hounds to follow. It continued to
be popular in schools but evolved into a national sport in the
late 19th century. These races were over defined courses similar
to what we have today. (My thanks to Mary Putnam for the facts she provided.)
If you have suggestions or comments,
please email: blevins06ATcomcastDOTnet
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