Final Weekend of Cross Country, by Walt Murphy, note by Larry Eder

The venerable Foot Locker Cross Country national championships will happen in San Diego, California this weekend. So will the USATF Club XC Championships and the Junior Olympics, all in different parts of the country!

Elizabeth Leachman and Tamrat Gavenas Capture First-Place Titles at the 45th Foot Locker Cross Country Championships National Finals Presented by HOKA®

2024 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, December 15, 2024, Week 13, Day 7, the FINAL long run of the cross country season

2024 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, December 14, 2024, Week 13, Day 6, the FINAL race of year, Footlocker, presented by HOKA!

If you are stuck in the snowy Midwest, or on the East coast, you will be able to see most of the events on your laptop, iphone or i pad. Walt Murphy provides the information below for your viewing pleasure.

If you are in Metro NY, you can always put on the racing shoes and run the Peter McArdle Memorial.

Christmas Ornament photo courtesy of PhotoRun.net.

Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service (wmurphy25@aol.com)
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The final weekend of the 2010 x-country season is upon us.

Saturday
Foot Locker National Champ.-Balboa Park, San Diego,CA http://footlockercc.com/
http://footlockercc.com/

Defending boys champion Lukas Verzbicas, the winner at last weekend’s
Nike Cross Nationals, will go for the double-double win on Saturday.

Flotrack will provide live video coverage, beginning at 8amPT(11amET).
http://tinyurl.com/292uf2f (Related videos up now)

The webcast will also be available at: http://footlockercc.com/2010/webcast.shtml (Regional highlights up now)

Additional Coverage
www.dyestat.com
http://www.milesplit.com/

USATF Junior Olympic Champ.-Hoover,AL http://tinyurl.com/2vof9op.
Schedule: http://tinyurl.com/2uqv837;
Preview: http://www.usatf.org/news/view.aspx?DUID=USATF_2010_12_09_07_38_55
Chris Solinsky, the American Record holder at 10,000-meters, will be on hand: http://tinyurl.com/2cyo5t2

USATF National Club Championships-McAlpine Park,Charlotte,NC http://tinyurl.com/3475bzd
Preview: http://www.usatf.org/news/view.aspx?DUID=USATF_2010_12_08_13_42_13

Sunday
Pete McArdle Classic-Van Cortlandt Park,NY 11:30am http://www.nyrr.org/races/2010/r1212x00.asp
Sponsored by the NY Road Runners, this is a low-key event named
after one of the running legends of NY. Born in Ireland, Pete McArdle
became an American citizen in 1962 and represented the U.S. at the 1963
Pan-American Games, where he won the gold medal in the 10,000 and the
bronze in the marathon. He also finished 23rd in the marathon at the
1964 Olympics in Tokoyo, was a 3-time U.S. Champion at 10,000-meters,
and the 1962 U.S. X-Country Champion. He collapsed and died in 1985,
at the age of 56, during a run at his beloved Van Cortlandt Park. (From
his NY Times obituary)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EFDE1E39F934A15755C0A963948260

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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