Who Won The Weekend: Aug 15 Boys & Girls 5K Results Merge

Who won the weekend Georgia XC
Ryan McClay
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What's fun about cross country is that every course is different. But what's fun about MileSplit is that it offers a way to compare times across these different courses. And we can combine multiple courses and come up with a ranking of sorts even though the athletes didn't race each other head to head. So each week we are going to compare performances from the top meets of the weekend. Note, we will only go as deep as the top 1000 individuals, so if your 5 scorers did not place in the top 1000, then there will not be a team score.

This week we're looking at results from LCA Invitational, NEGA Championships, Peach State Preview, Fowlkes Memorial, Into the Trail, and Sherwood Around the Cross.

A few things stood out to me from this weekend. This is just the beginning. Most of the top athletes and teams either haven't started yet or opted for a 2 mile race instead. I've found in my analysis over the years that a 2 mile cross country race is not that good of a predictor of top individuals or...