Welcome to Farmington High Cross Country
For those interested in doing cross country this year we will be starting up practices in the summer time Starting Wednesday June 5th. We will first meet at the school, check the blog weekly for weekly practice schedules with times and locations. If you are interested in signing up for summer training, please fill this form out: 2023 Farmington Cross Country Summer Training Registration
There are two ways that parents can receive updates on what is happening with XC. Through an email list (register at the link above), or by joining the following groupme (announcements only).
At the conclusion of summer training our official season will begin on August 7th. Training will fluctuate between mornings and afternoons until school begins, at which point practices will be held during 8th period and after school. More on that below.
Cross Country Parent Meeting
tbd
Summer Practice Starts:
Wednesday, June 5th, 7 AM @ FHS (Between the school and the stadium - note that this is a different spot than past years)
Summer Training
Summer practices will be held most Monday/Wednesday/Friday beginning at 7 AM. The purpose of summer is to build a base and strengthen the team. We will steadily build up weekly mileage in preparation for the fall racing season. Mileage will be determined namely by a "percentage" of a maximum volume which will be individualized depending on the athletes' experience and current fitness level. Many of our returning boys will work up to 50ish miles per week, and the returning girls will work towards 40ish miles per week. Newer runners will be somewhere between 20-40, but again, will be built up beginning from about 50% of their max mileage. Daily mileage will be given based on the weekly total one is shooting for.
The goal is to build a base, not over-work the athletes, so the majority of the mileage will be easy/moderate without hard/intense miles. Closer to August we will start to incorporate more "race-specific" workouts to get them prepared for races and being at their best for region, state, and beyond.
Generally, on Mondays and Fridays we will meet at various parks and begin our runs from there. On Wednesdays we plan to meet at "Vita" (the Bonneville shoreline trail beginning near the animal shelter in Kaysville).
Summer Cost:
Summer Cross Country Cost = $50
-Includes participation in summer training and a BSN technical t-shirt
*Anyone 8th-12th grade is welcome to come train with us during the summer whether you are doing the fall season with us or not. 8th graders are only able to train in the summer. Once the season starts, 8th graders cannot continue to train with the team.
Cross Country Camp (optional):
TBD
Cross Country Camp (optional):
TBD
If we are able to pull this off, it will likely be the week of August 1st.
Tentative Schedule: - Subject to change
June 5th - Summer XC Starts
June 28- July 4 - Moratorium - No Practice
Tentative Schedule: - Subject to change
June 5th - Summer XC Starts
June 28- July 4 - Moratorium - No Practice
August 5th - Start of regular season
XC Official Season
XC Official Season
Eligibility
Before you can compete you need to make sure that you are eligible through academics, completing the registration. View the link below for details on that.
Cross country class
We have an XC class during 8th period, and everyone is encouraged to get in the class. This allows us to miss fewer classes when we leave early for races, to finish practices earlier and have more time for family, homework, work, or otherwise. The class is not mandatory, but it is encouraged.
9th graders maybe in the class, although they would arrive a bit later due to schedules not matching up perfectly, and that is fine, just talk to your counselor on how to enroll in the class. Students would be required to arrange for their own transportation to and from practices at the High School.
On non-class days we will begin practices at 3:15 to allow for our freshmen to arrive on time for practices. This also gives you time to work with teachers, take pfas, etc.
On class days, students who are not in the class will come to practice as quickly as they are able (arriving by approximately 2:35) and begin the warm up (9th graders would be later).
Races - Varsity/JV
For those of you who are new to the sport, XC scoring is done by adding the places of the first 5 runners of each team. The place you get is the score you contribute to your team's total. A team finishing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 would score 15 points. The lowest score wins.
Varsity races are generally done with 7 runners, but sometimes we are allowed more, like 10-14 runners. When you have more, the additional runners beyond the first 7 no longer contribute to the overall places of other teams' runners - meaning if the 8th runner on our team finishes ahead of a 1-5 runner on an opponent's team, the scoring will be done as if our 8th runner was not in the race. JV races are scored the same, and because there are generally way more than 7 runners per team, runners after 7 are likewise not scored nor contribute to the opponents' scores.
Determining who the 7 runners are for varsity races can be a difficult process with a team such as ours. We have a lot of athletes who switch places from week to week because they are so close together in current ability. It's my job to give our team the best chance to win.
To determine those 7 we look at a variety of things, namely the latest race results, past race results, best paces, and consistency. We also consider practice attendance and overall consistency. Ultimately Coach Jacobson will have the final say in who is entered into the varsity races. Having run in a varsity race multiple times does not guarantee future participation in a varsity race.
Every race we go to, except for two, is open to everyone, Varsity and JV. Divisionals and State are the only two that are varsity only races (7 runners per gender).
With all this talk about varsity it's easy to think that is the most important element of the team, but the fact is that the greatest indicator of a good team is how good the JV team is. The varsity group is just the tip of the iceberg. The JV group challenging and vying for varsity spots is what raises the level of our team. Any success the varsity group has at a meet is a credit to the entire team, not just the varsity 7.
Meet Schedule - tbd
