As an Athlete fueling your body for practice and competition is so important.  Fueling your body with high quality foods is a major part of sports performance and running.

Iron and Ferritin lives play an important role in an athletes performance.  Your blood helps transport oxygen  to muscle cells.  If iron levels are low (ferritin) then transportation of oxygen in the blood is not effecient.

Distance runners are on their feet and are running many miles during the season.  Proper equipment including shoes, clothing and accessories play and important part to get ready to run and competition.  Fleet Feet is a great running store and can help runners get fitted for the right equipment.

After high school there are options to run at the college level in NCAA, NAIA and Jr Colleges.  It is important to know the requirements to run at the college level including needed courses and credits. 

Here are some maps of the courses we typically run during the Cross Country Season.  It is good to know the courses and terrain you may encounter in races.

There are many factors involved with making a runner faster and better prepared for racing during the season.  This section explores some of the items runners may consider to improve as distance runners.