USTFCCCA National Cross Country Coaches Polls, Week 1, note by Larry Eder

Cross country season was always my favorite season in high school and college. In high school, while in St. Louis, we raced on the Saint Louis University High School home course in Forest Park. I ran for DeSmet and we wanted to crush the SLUSH, as we called them.

Leonard Komen, Campaccio XC 2009,

photo by PhotoRun.net

When my family moved to California, I ran for Bellarmine Prep, and we raced at Crystal Springs four to five times during the season. The Belmont 2.9 mile course was tough. I remember watching Mitch Kingery run 14:35 on the course: he was god like to us.

In college, we had a course at Coyote-Hellyer Park, the 5.8 mile course, two laps, was fun and fast, with one tough hill near the end. My reward for winning my first meet as coach and athlete, (27-29, SC vs Loyola Marymount) was being thrown in the pond. Enjoyed that very much!

Here are the first week of Coaches Polls for Division 1, 2, 3 for NCAA Cross Country.

This Day in Track & Field–January 24, Ted Meredith wins close 600 yards (1917), Ron Clarke wins 3 mile in Oakland, sets WR (1969), Mary Cain sets WJindoor record at mile (2014), by Walt Murphy

This Day in Track & Field, October 14, Billy Mills wins Tokyo 10,000m (1964), the real story of Dick Bank in NBC Call (1964), by Walt Murphy News & Results Services

Fantastic Voyage (My trip to the 1956 Olympics), by Jim Dunaway (reprinted courtesy of Walt Murphy News & Results Service

DIII – http://www.american-trackandfield.com/atf/index.php/news/cross-country/item/156-diii-national-cross-country-coaches%E2%80%99-poll-%E2%80%94-2012-week-1

DII – http://www.american-trackandfield.com/atf/index.php/news/cross-country/item/153-dii%E2%80%99s-first-regular-season-national-cross-country-rankings-released

DI – http://www.american-trackandfield.com/atf/index.php/news/cross-country/item/145-heart-of-cross-country-regular-season-starts-with-wisconsin-washington-leading-di

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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