10. No cars to worry about when running.
9. Beautiful scenery (if you can look and not trip over a root while running)
8. Variety of terrain, short steep uphills, long gradual uphills, the ridiculous hill at the FLCC course 3 miles into it, at a time when you are already hurting.
7. Did I mention there might be hills? Oh, and you can sprint hard and go around a corner and lose competitors in the trees.
6. Your finishing place is important even if you are in the bottom 30% of racers.
5. Another excuse to shop at your favorite running store (Fleet Feet, right?) for the right gear.
4. Spikes make you feel fast even if you aren't and they come in cool colors.
3. Why should the kids in high school have all the fun?
2. It's fun to travel to new areas to run.
1. Listening to Mike W. complain.
Top Ten Reasons to Hate XC Running
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2. Really mean and short tempered captain.
3. Running in fear from "the bear"
4. If man were meant to run on grass and trails he'd have spikes on his feel instead of calluses.
5. HS kids pointing at the old runners.
6. Being one of the old runners getting pointed at.
7. You could fall down and get dirty.
8. Did I mention how mean our captain is?
9. The next race requires a passport.
10. Getting too tired to whine.
The meanness was only an attempt to get our adrenalin flowing so we'd be ready to race without a warmup.
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