XC Meets

Every Wednesday our cross country team has a meet. This week we went to Waltham for our meet. All of the teams won their race. The race was a little shorter than our home course and since it was a little cool out it made running easier. The race was a good race, but the course was kind of boring because there was no track to start out on, so we ran around a field. then in the woods, some people got lost because the course was confusing at some points because there were too many turns. Overall the meet was good because WA came out with the win.

XC

Our blog is about Westford Academy Cross Country. In this blog we will talk about our daily schedule in cross country. We will also talk about what we do during practice and during our meets. Also, we'll discuss the canister drive the team does every year and the New York trip we go on very year too. Another topic will be the meets and how they work. Finally, we will talk about attendance and how that affects being able to participate in fun events in cross country. These are the topics we will talk about in our blog that is below.

In cross country, we start practice at the track with two warm-up laps, followed by stretching and sets of pushups and crunches. After that, we do form drills on the turf. After this we begin our workouts where we divide into different groups based on our ability and run on different trails at different speeds. During meets, we run on the team that's closest to our ability. Most of the captains run varsity, but some run jv. Finally, during the meets, people like Will Alden and others are very encouraging to all the runners. This is what it's like to be a part of WA XC.