“I have been running cross-country for around 6 years. Running is a great way to stay in shape as well as lots of fun if you run with the right people. Plus you are racing and pushing yourself to focus on a goal. I ran JJ10K because my dad and I ran it last year, and now, we are making it a tradition to run it each year.”

“Cross country training helped me a lot, but I hadn’t run over 3 miles in a month after cross country season, since I was training for pole vault and hurdle for spring track, so a couple of days before I ran some slow 3 and 4 mile runs then went into the mindset of just having fun with it!

Short term I hope to be able to run both short and long distance well, maybe go sub 18 for a 5k and sub 53 for a 400. Long term, I hope to go to college for track but if I don’t, I would take up long distance running!”