The XC thread

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Autumnleaves Nov 2015 4:53pm, 1 Nov 2015 7,235 posts	Autumnleaves That has made me chuckle a lot RM!
Curly45 Nov 2015 5:25pm, 1 Nov 2015 2,893 posts	Curly45 RM! Lol. Ours are different locations so we have a long way to go to switch on the on urn
Mave Nov 2015 5:31pm, 1 Nov 2015 2,034 posts	Mave Ours are run at the same time. Same course. Same length. Assumed they were all like that.
stuart little Nov 2015 5:36pm, 1 Nov 2015 988 posts	stuart little Seperate races (of the same length!) is the best way as it allows while families to compete without needing to find childcare. Course at Mansfield was excellent yesterday
Autumnleaves Nov 2015 5:41pm, 1 Nov 2015 7,236 posts	Autumnleaves That is a good point Stu.
stuart little Nov 2015 5:49pm, 1 Nov 2015 989 posts	stuart little It's one that I've only really noticed this year
Autumnleaves Nov 2015 5:50pm, 1 Nov 2015 7,237 posts	Autumnleaves
ndellar Nov 2015 5:51pm, 1 Nov 2015 3,159 posts	ndellar We have 5/6K for ladies, 10K for men, always separate races, mostly at same venues apart from Birmingham league where the venues can't or won't cope with the combined numbers and the men have to get their own tea only exception for us is the relays where we all do 5K and run together. I do feel sometimes having a longer race would favour me, but immediately after I always think I'm glad I don't have to run that all again!
Autumnleaves Nov 2015 5:52pm, 1 Nov 2015 7,238 posts	Autumnleaves Ours are all 4-5 miles - which I find quite long enough
Curly45 Nov 2015 6:13pm, 1 Nov 2015 2,894 posts	Curly45 Our leagues are 6k and then 8k for ladies, with men's at least 10k I think. Different venues with different start times. We have 450 women so couldn't do same race (only 100 men or so). Also we have a much kinder scoring system that sees everyone count. The men's is top 10 in each team and that's it. Ours is cumulative scoring so each runner pushes up the score of the other teams runners behind them. Champs races are different too, 5m ish for women. Which I don't mind. We do up to 8 at mob matches though and that is more than enough! I couldn't do 9 on parliament hill as the men do. Urgh.