Two weeks ago we called cross country an individual sport, painting a picture of the mental and physical trials an athlete faces from start to finish of a race. However after seeing the Boilermakers and entire conference compete at the Big Ten Championships last weekend, it can be seen that there...
The Purdue men's and women's cross country teams showed solid overall improvement, but still finished 10th and ninth, respectively, at the Big Ten Championships, hosted by Penn State University on Sunday.
An athlete steps to the line, dressed for the appropriate weather, flanked by hundreds of competitors, with hundreds of fingers waiting to start a stopwatch, and waits for the gun to start the race.