001all right wild cats it's Friday we're going to have some fun I'm on location today here at Crest Creek Park here in West Chicago during the week you might see dogs getting trained there's a frisbee golf course here but it's also home to our boys and girls cross country team we're going to find out a little bit about their season all the hard training that they're doing the amount of work it takes to be a successful Runner they're going to help me become a better Runner too all right wild cats ran into a couple cross country Runners here who am I here with Judah McQueen and Jessica Balmer Judah and Jessica you guys are both on the cross country team captains of the cross country team correct how's the season going so far pretty good
002pretty good it was going decent until I entered my quad okay you got a little bit of injury you qualified for State last year did you not yes I did first Wildcat runner in a long time to make it a state so you guys put in a lot of miles each week how many miles a week would you say you run between 20 and 30 a week not not a year a week a week in one week you run 30 miles oh yeah okay could anybody do could I become a runner and just all of a sudden run three miles yeah you could you could definitely do it how far is it to the high school from here about 2 miles about 2 miles think we could run it today me and you Jude is
003a little dinged up he'll coach us from the truck but you think me and you could uh you and I could run 2 miles definitely all right let's see what we can do maybe we'll run into a couple friends along the way all right so we're going to run 2 miles back to school I think I'm ready single knot or double knot my shoes double knot got a double knot okay I'm going to have to do that in a second do I need to stretch warm up or should I just get going we got some Dynamic stretching to do all right Dynamic stretching I know what that mean that means I'm going to move and stretch at the same time right okay all right let's do it [Music] you tired yet not yet doing okay
004you doing okay good about halfway up the [Music] speet is I can do is someone tell me where to someone tell [Applause] me we got another member of the cross country team here who am I here with Danny you're on the cross country team yes do you like it yeah why I just love running and you know the team team is like really good team Dynamic I get I get want hang out with people but you love you love running yeah you like other sports like I played football basketball baseball growing up like whenever we got in trouble or messed up the coach made us run it's like a punishment that was my favorite part okay so it's not a punishment to you mm you want to join us on the rest of this run
005yeah let's go down relax try to it out alive and there's for my [Music] life all right we ran into another friend who am I here with Sophia Garcia are you on the cross country team yep how come I love running you love running yep for fun yeah it's really rewarding and you feel good afterwards what do you do to prep for the race the night before I ate a lot of pasta is that past pasta right there for me yeah pasta for you okay so I should have that to finish the r [Music] yeaha and spaghetti toaa pasta take a look see quick question Mr W uh not to be rude Is that real sweat yeah it's not fake sweat I'll tell you that it's real sweat it's hot out the sun's out I'm
006sweating I'm working hard this is not AI running I'm really doing it Sophia you want to join us for the rest of yeah I'd love to all right here we [Music] go all right wild cats ran into another friend here got interrupted for a second due to a car accident be safe out there when you're running or driving and I'm here with Romeo Alfaro are you on the cross country yes I am okay I've met a few of your teammates and they all seem to like it are you with them you like cross country I like cross country it does get really tiring sometimes and I don't want to show up to practice but I always do Romeo shows up every day some days he doesn't want to but he still shows up one thing
007when I'm running I don't know I don't know what to do with my hands I feel very like do I make a fist do I crack my Knuckles should I do like one finger up make a knife what what do I do I mean if you're like sprinting and you're going You're trying to go really fast I'm not trying to do that all right then just just keep your arms relaxed keep your shoulders down that's what I do keep it tight whatever not hunched not hunched definitely not your shoulders get really tired what about my hands though what do I do with my hands I said just I I like to open my hands Open Hands I don't have I don't like having a fist open hands full heart all of it thank you Romeo
008oh [Music] Romeo I keep I keep all right wild cats found another friend who's this CeCe I'm the cross country yeah do you love running I love it love it what do you love about it just running like with yourself and with your team it just makes everything so much better what do you do we've been running a little ways we're over halfway done I hope what do you do like when the race starts to get tough I always have to tell myself to keep pushing harder even though that's hot even though like you just don't want to you just always have to keep pushing go go to the next person you got this okay so pass the next person in front of me all right uh the rest of you they've been with me
009for a little while how am I doing so far the guys think I'm doing good I think they're just being nice girls how am I doing I think you need some electrolytes okay I have some Gatorade here that'll help me finish strong can you open this for me it's too hard thank you I'm hoping they're not giving me bad advice but they said I didn't need to drink all of it don't drink all of it I'm getting conflicting reports here some say drink all of it some say just sip we're outside of Gary element and you guys go to Gary oh we got some Gary alums here does it feel good to run by the old elementary school some days after school yeah it brings back memories all right I think we're in in the
010home stretch you guys ready to get me back to [Music] school all right we're getting closer we almost made it are you guys even breathing hard no no so if you're in Cross Country you'll be in really good shape wean into some more friends here part of our senior cross country team are you okay are you okay Mr Wolf I'm doing okay I'm doing okay I'm here with tell everybody who I'm here with hi I'm Dr D principal Jamie Garcia history teacher Misty I hear that you guys run multiple days a week after school together is that correct yep ones day and Friday yep yep why good question you know what I'm getting close to retirement I want to be able to enjoy my retirement so I want to improve my cardiovascular so you want
011to live long yes all right Dr DWI if I'm not mistaken you ran cross country in high school you did and cross country in college I did and you still run now I do well into your 40s I do well into my 40 uh why is to be healthy and uh and I enjoy it so outfit's okay shoes Okay the outfit's okay the shoes look a little rough Mr Wolf so you got to take care of yourself how about we get you some hocas all right brand new pair of H brand new pair of H all right I'll I'll finish the race out in the you guys mind to join us on the rest of the run back [Music] tool you can do it Mr Wolf I'm good feel [Music] strong only there's an incline
012here work the hill work the hill the hill long stries or short stes short I was trying to do long stries short we did that good job Jon Garcia joined us thanks Sophia thanks CeCe thanks for the tips don't let anybody tell you cross country is an easy sport these kids are out here working hard every day representing the wild cats this is real sweat not fake sweat keep up the great work guys have a fun Friday good luck this weekend at your meets so I just finished running what do you what should I do now well that was just a warmup so we got our 7 m long run so I got to run more after I run yeah yeah that was just a warm up okay don't do it don't do it you
013feel warm we'll see I'm definitely warm I'm warmed up but I I might saay the cool down for another day okay hey Mr Wolf you okay I think so it's okay you did a good job thank you I'll feel better tomorrow was way better than we thought you do you said you guys said that I I'll feel great at the end yeah that's not 100% true I'm sure it'll come some you didn't you you'll maybe need to roll out at night do an ice bath ice ice bath ice bath no he I got it hydrate you ready for tomorrow you got to run again tomorrow yeah yeah every day every day every take a day off come on I keep on you yeah yeah yeah