cross country practices

[fb65]

Is a cross country team permitted to get 15 days of practice in prior to the offical start date of practices? Example for a running camp.

[Flatulence]

You are going to have a 15 day running camp? Wow. My understanding of cross country is that we are permitted 10 days from the time school is out until the first day of practice, this summer - August 1st. What i like to do is to once a week for 5 weeks and then a cross country camp the week before the practice season begins. However, being "old school" I refuse to start cross country season until AFTER Labor Day. I just think running team competition during the hottest month of the year is crazy - conditioning during the hottest month of the year is entirely different, but racing as a team, in that heat, puts way too much pressure on the kids both psychologically and physiologically. I tried it for 2 years and it was a failed experiment.