I've never done an official xc race but I was in a bootcamp thing for bad kids (YCP) ran by the national guard and our cadre loved to run.
We walked over 8 miles every single day (except weekends) because of how the base was layed out (for instance the defac (dining facility) was 2 miles from the classrooms, 1 mile from our barracks).
Our baseball field was 9 miles from our barracks and every saturday afternoon we rode a van there, practiced, an ran all the way back. It was hell but I don't regret it. Now that I'm a chunky code monkey I could afford to start long-distance running again to lose a little weight to be honest!
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