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[Copelius]

BYU Could have counted all their runners and still won by over 100 points

[Jeff Lebowski]

She broke the old course record by 25 seconds.

[Jeff Lebowski]

BYU with all 5 scorers in the top 9 and 9 runners in the top 25. That is domination.

[BigPiney]

she is amazing

[Donuthole]

She basically has 2.5 years of college training to prepare to cook at the 2028 Olympics.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Jane Hedengren starts her college career with a dominating win and a new course record. Wow.

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[dabrockster]

BYU Women’s team on the Natty.. Congrats to them.

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[BigPiney]

They looked really good.

[BigFatMeanie]

BYU men score 18 to win the WCC cross country championship. A perfect score is 15 - lowest score wins. 18 is pretty dang amazing.

[BigPiney]

I really enjoyed the races this weekend! BYU is bigtime. NAU is continuing to reload in the Men's program. Colin Sahlman recently signed there and next year they will likely sign Colin's brother and Nico Young's twin brothers. Newbury Park continues to dominate on the national stage. As a a Westlake Warrior household we have had enough of the Youngs and the Sahlmans.

With a last name like Young Nico and his brothers should be at BYU

Hate NP. Also hate the Buchanan girls team. unfortunately my daughter runs against them in track. Yeesh they are good.

[Flystripper]

I really enjoyed the races this weekend! BYU is bigtime. NAU is continuing to reload in the Men's program. Colin Sahlman recently signed there and next year they will likely sign Colin's brother and Nico Young's twin brothers. Newbury Park continues to dominate on the national stage. As a a Westlake Warrior household we have had enough of the Youngs and the Sahlmans.

With a last name like Young Nico and his brothers should be at BYU

[smokymountainrain]

My daughter's view is that if people can come back from having babies and win Olympic medals, then someone that really wants it can come back from a mission. Just like that quote in the Bible, "I never said it would be easy..."

if anybody can do it, she can. i wouldn't put anything past that kid.

[BigPiney]

i'm mostly looking at it from a sprinting standpoint. i just can't imagine my son - granted he's not the most passionate, and therefore hard working track athlete - coming back from two years and ever getting back to where he was coming out of HS, let alone improving on those times. but now that i type it out, that is a pretty narrow view. could be entirely different for a distance runner or even a passionate, hard working sprinter.

My daughter's view is that if people can come back from having babies and win Olympic medals, then someone that really wants it can come back from a mission. Just like that quote in the Bible, "I never said it would be easy..."

[smokymountainrain]

I don't know enough about running to know what makes an elite distance runner. Obviously losing 2 years of training doesn't help any athlete. But that is also 24 months less wear and tear on the body, in a sport where overuse injuries seem to be a big factor. it would make sense that it might require a year to get back to pre-mission conditioning, but are there other reasons missions are detrimental?

i'm mostly looking at it from a sprinting standpoint. i just can't imagine my son - granted he's not the most passionate, and therefore hard working track athlete - coming back from two years and ever getting back to where he was coming out of HS, let alone improving on those times. but now that i type it out, that is a pretty narrow view. could be entirely different for a distance runner or even a passionate, hard working sprinter.

[Art Vandelay]

i have to wonder if missions hurt the running events/sports perhaps more than any other sport.

I don't know enough about running to know what makes an elite distance runner. Obviously losing 2 years of training doesn't help any athlete. But that is also 24 months less wear and tear on the body, in a sport where overuse injuries seem to be a big factor. it would make sense that it might require a year to get back to pre-mission conditioning, but are there other reasons missions are detrimental?