Sound Running is hosting the Fitness Bank Cross Champs in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, December 1, 2022. The Fitness Bank Cross Champs is part of the World Athletics Cross Country Tour, a global tour celebrating the iconic sport of the cross country. This piece is from World Athletics.
Sound Running produces bespoke elite athletic events (cross country and track & field), with streaming video options (putting some of their revenue into elite athlete performance awards) and post-pandemic live fans options. Sound Running is managed by Jesse Williams and Craig Vanderhoef, both great friends of the sport and veterans of the running business.
The World Athletics Cross Country Tour heads to Austin, USA, on Thursday (1), when a number of leading athletes will race for individual glory and team triumph at Sound Running’s Fitness Bank Cross Champs.
Australia’s Oliver Hoare and Pat Tiernan and USA’s Alicia Monson and Emily Infeld are among the entries for the 8km clashes taking place at St. Stephens High School, which welcomes athletes for the eighth Gold level meeting in this season’s Cross Country Tour.
The Cross Country Tour forms a key part in the preparation of many athletes who will be targeting the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 23 in February, and Hoare is among those with their eye on the global event taking place on his home soil.
But first up is Cross Champs, which will see athletes compete on a mainly grass one-mile loop course as part of pro teams and training group squads.
Hoare returns to racing for the first time since the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich, where he placed third in the 1500m. That came at the end of a strong track season that saw the 25-year-old win Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham in a PB of 3:30.12 and break the Oceania mile records both indoors and outdoors.
In Austin, he’ll be joined by his teammates George Beamish, Mario Garcia Romo, Morgan McDonald, Yared Nuguse, and Joe Klecker, who won this year’s US 10,000m title and finished ninth at the World Championships.
McDonald won the NCAA cross-country title in 2018, while Tiernan claimed it in 2016 and recently stepped up in distance to make his marathon debut in Chicago. After a 16th-place finish there, he’ll drop back down to 8km as he races on a team also featuring Patrick Dever, who raced for Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2019 World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus.
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