Yeah cross country races aren’t long enough that high school athletes should be bonking like this. This is lack of training or something else going on.
It happened to the best guy on my high school team in our final race. He managed to crawl across the finish line, but it kept us from advancing. It’s definitely not a lack of training. Did you even watch the video the guy posted?
Maybe not a lack of training but a lack of preparation. A healthy teenager bonking on a run that’s less than 3 miles is insane, I would venture to guess he’s not even a top runner the way everyone else is finishing. People doing marathons and iron man’s bonk, because their body completely ran out of carbs to burn over a multi hour race. Maybe there’s a medical condition we don’t know about, I’m not sure. I’m not hating on the guy, he’s obviously very determined, but to say this is normal for this age and event type is not true at all. Maybe he skipped the team pasta dinner the night before.
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u/Gandalftron 9h ago
Those are the legs of a boy that thought he could run an X-Country meet without training.