The inaugural U.S. Collegiate Path Championships will happen on November 4, 2023, together with the Moab Path Half Marathon in Moab, Utah. Each people and groups from all universities and schools all through the U.S. are invited to participate.
Prompted by the expansion of the Path Working Workforce at Western Colorado College (WCU), the hoped-to-be annual championships purpose to behave as a catalyst for the event of path operating applications and groups at varied increased degree establishments all through the U.S., and to supply such groups with an finish aim price aiming towards. Josh Eberly, head coach of the Path Working Workforce at WCU, who’s on the helm of growing these championships, instructed iRunFar:
“We’re working with the race director from the Moab Path Marathon, Danelle Ballengee, and over the previous couple of weeks we’ve been attempting to get some standards out for this primary yr. We simply launched registration and particulars on the Moab Path Marathon web site.” He went on:
“The large factor is, I actually wish to deal with the workforce aspect, and encourage extra schools to introduce this path workforce surroundings. Nonetheless, this yr, as a result of the occasion is quickly, we thought it could be good to introduce some people too that also match the factors, however possibly can’t put collectively a workforce of 4 in just a few weeks.”
Runners from the Western Colorado College Path Working Workforce on the 2022 Moab Path Marathon, which would be the host occasion for the inaugural Collegiate Path Championships. All images courtesy of Josh Eberly.
Whereas this yr’s championships might begin small, Eberly hopes it is going to be a superb launching pad and stated: “If there’s three groups or there’s 10, I’ll be high quality with that. I simply wish to begin someplace.”
With the intention to meet the factors, entrants should be enrolled in a college/school as a pupil (undergraduate or post-graduate) and be enrolled in a minimal of six present credit per athlete. The workforce championships are for blended groups, and groups will probably be scored on their high two female and male finishers, however are free to enter extra runners. All groups should put on an identifiable singlet or workforce uniform.
Though the championships will happen as a part of an open race on the already well-liked Moab Path Half Marathon, all collegiate runners will begin in a delegated USATF Path Half Marathon Championships wave at 10 a.m.
The open race is full, however there are nonetheless locations held for collegiate runners and groups, who ought to e mail [email protected] to obtain a hyperlink to register. Or for extra data, attain out to Josh Eberly at [email protected].
For the WCU Path Working Workforce, the autumn semester and season of coaching and racing is effectively underway. Eberly stated, “We’re weeks deep in apply now. We did a workforce journey over to Ouray, to the San Juan Mountains, we did The Cirque Collection ─ Arapahoe Basin the primary week again, and we competed on the Golden Path World Collection Pikes Peak Ascent race. We introduced 14 athletes to Pikes Peak and obtained them to compete and get to the highest in a single piece, there was superior power at it, and it was an incredible begin to the season to this point.”
Though they produce other occasions on the calendar, the principle focus for the WCU Path Working Workforce is the brand new Collegiate Path Championships in November. Are you a pupil or college member from one other school, and suppose you possibly can problem them for the workforce win? If that’s the case, now could be the time to enroll!
Runners from the Western Colorado College Path Working Workforce on the 2023 Cirque Collection – Arapahoe Basin race.
