I’m impressed each time I am going to a cross-country meet.
At present, (November 22, 2025), my brother Brian Eder, co-founder of #RunBlogRun and I visited the #NXRSouthwest meet! 3,500 girls and boys, plus their households, are having fun with the one quick and flat course most of those children have run this yr! Lilly Alder gained the ladies’ championships race in 16:36.1, and Jackson Spencer gained the boys’ championship race in 14:31.1! However that was ONLY a part of the story.
I went up and spoke with dad and mom, athletes in most of the races, previous to and after their races! The sensation was all about enjoyable and seeing what they will do! #NXR Southwest is an instance of the children who’re working within the 9 #NXR occasions as they hope to be one in all prime two boys’ groups and prime two women’ groups or the highest 5 unattached girls and boys within the races, and transfer on to the #NXN, to be held on December 6, 2025.
Some good touches right here: #NIKESwooshTC was right here in full drive, with 9 athletes talking to #RunBlogRun, cheering on the athletes, and giving out the awards. #EthanStrand, #ParkerWolfe, #DrewBosley, #MaggieCondon, #EliseSteiner, #YusufBizimani, #LiamMurphy, #AbdiNur, #WoodyKincaid, and #MoAhmed, hanging out with the group.
#SwooshTC cheered on the children. I noticed a younger lady thank the athletes after the race, saying that their encouragement and hand slapping impressed her.
I used to be taken again to the A.A.U. Cross Nation (Crystal Springs, Belmont, CA) in 1974 at Crystal Springs, the place my buddies, #BobLucas, #JimFitzhenry, and #NickPelinga (#BellarminePrep in San Jose, CA) and I snuck underneath the fences to satisfy our heroes! We met Frank Shorter, then, 1972 Olympic champion and 3-time Fukuoka winner. We have been unhappy that Frank, our hero, had not gained his fifth Cross-Nation title. Frank was so cool with us, and I lastly informed him, fifty years later, how a lot he meant to me to try this! The following week, Frank Shorter went on to win his fourth #FukuokaMarathon, then, the yearly world championships of marathoning!
My father, Stan Eder, and my sisters, MaryLou, MaryBeth and Kathy, and my brother, Brian, all went with us, within the Ford Nation Squire, jamming up the freeway from San Jose, CA to Belmont, CA. Dad took his solely day without work from work (he was the premanager on the Ford Milpitas, CA plant)
After a number of dozen movies, a dozen interviews and having fun with the races, I used to be reminded of simply how essential cross-country is to the common highschool runner. It modified my life. How a lot will assembly #EthanStrand, or #WoodyKincaid encourage one other era? I believe cross-country is so essential.
#CrosscountryChangesLives
#NIKECrossNationals
#NXRSouthwest,
