Over/Under on the live stream freezing or blacking out - 75

48 degrees in Columbia right now! Very wet, very humid, and very windy

And the men are off!

Casarez is leading in the early going

Commercial break

Casarez in at 25th.

Men place 9th overall

Eric Casarez 25th
Brady Grant 31st
Gavin Hoffpauir 49th
Juan Arcila 67th
Johnathan Chung 70th

The girls are off but find themselves in the back of the pack to start

The girls have generally improved as the race has gone along this season, but I worry they won't move up as much with the weather.

Bingo! With how top heavy the SEC is and adding the weather this wasn't the race you want to start well behind in. Especially all the way in the back like we did! We have the girls to keep up so not sure why we came out so flat! But really glad they're moving up! Still gotta eat more spots up though through 4K

Gemma Goddard is moving up fast!

Alabama's 5th runner doesn't get it done/

Crazy! The team championship was theirs! Hate to see Arkansas win again

Goddard comes across in 37th and it goes to commercial before any of our other runners can cross the finish line

Our girls come in 11th

But what matters is Regionals! Let's hope our runners can bounce back!

Texas girls don't look great either... nationals still anyone's between us, texas, ACU, and LSU https://live.pttiming.com/xc-ptt.html?mid=4637

Katie Rainsberger confirmed she had multiple DEXA scans a year. A nutritionist celebrated her falling body fat percentage even though the nutritionist knew that Rainsberger had stopped menstruating

University of Oregon Track and Field - Former Oregon Runners Corroborate Body Shaming Accusations (runnersworld.com)

Vote for Athing Mu and Fred Kerley for USATF athletes of the year, voting link is on top of the article!

https://12thman.com/news/2021/11/2/track-and-field-kerley-mu-nominated-for-usatf-athlete-of-the-year.aspx

That speech needs to be stickied to the top of the forum.

doesn't seem there is a live stream for the cross country regional meet Friday which makes me sad! Might just have to drive up to Waco to watch our girls fight for a spot at nationals

Hoping for the best for both teams!

Sometimes someone will stream on twitter from the back of the gator. You might have to search for a bit. That's how we watched the regional from I think Fayetteville around 5 years ago.

Very true, and sometimes the gator camera is better than the actual live stream itself lol! But I don't just wanna see Arkansas' girls I wanna see everyone else

12th man preview for regionals: https://12thman.com/news/2021/10/28/cross-country-toes-the-line-for-sec-championships.aspx

In less then 45 minutes, our cross country teams will race for a shot at nationals! Our girls race at 10am and it all comes down to this one 6km race! Our girls have a shot at nationals, but all 5 need to have their best day on the same day! Our girls have been up and down and yet to run their best race on the same day, and I pray and hope that's today! If Julia Black and Abbey Santoro do their job and stay close to the top, I expect our freshman Gemma Goddard and Maddie Livingston to run with them and score low! Hopefully Grace Plain has her best race too, every single place will matter today!

The top 2 teams advance and Arkansas has a clear shot at number one, but in my opinion 3 other teams will be fighting for 2nd with us! The favorite is Abilene Christian, they have a stud in Irene Rono who will fight for a top ten spot. Prudence Kiyeng and Brianna Gerlach have huge PR's but they can be up and down. Our top 4 have to beat one of them of stay close. Their 5 runner should be Grace White, so we should track how far she's behind. We need to hope the Arkansas girls can beat Rono and Black/Santoro can stay behind her and ahead of ACU's 2/3 girl. Texas has a strong runner in Beth Ramos, but the 4 behind are not as strong but are able to run in a pack. We need our 4 to take down their 2/3/4/5 and we easily beat Texas. LSU is strong up front led by Katy Ann McDonald, but have a weak 3/4/5. So I think it comes down to us and ACU.

The course is definitely not a PR course, so it's all going to come down to strategy and placing. Our girls got off to a nightmarish start at conference so hopefully the lesson was learned. Our girls are talented and can run up top, so hopefully they get in a strong position and maintain rather than have to fight and claw back for places.

Let's pray all our girls have their best day today and we can be celebrating, but it will be a dog fight! Let's hope Kiyeng and Gerlach don't both beat all our girls. We need to run with them. White and Holderman of ACU need to fall back behind our girls. We need to show we have more depth. Abilene Christian is a strong team that will rely on Rono's high score, so hopefully we have some girls ready to run the best race of their life today. Anything is possible and I believe their best race has get to happen! I expect all 5 to run together and our leaders Black and Santoro will position us well to place low and compete with ACU and Texas...

Live Results Link: http://results.deltatiming.com/xc/2021-ncaa-d1-xc-south-central-regional/results/1

And of course Baylor has to use this weird ass live results page which doesn't even tell us who's competing yet!

These live results suck

Patience. They have to cross the timing strips.

Our girls in 6th through the halfway point

I'm just too amped up lol

Grace, Gemma, and Maddie all lose ground after 5k. Going to need a furious finish to have a chance.