Nate Perry, CMUChippewas.com
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — Cross country is different from other sports in that the “regular season” events are used almost like training sessions for the big meets at the end of the year.
The first of those such meets, the Pre-National Invitational, is this weekend at the Indiana State’s LaVern Gibson Cross Country Championship Course in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The Chippewas will join fellow Mid-American Conference members Miami (Ohio), Ohio, Toledo, Bowling Green, Western Michigan and Northern Illinois in the event.
So, along with the chance to preview the championship course for a possible national championship berth, the Chippewas get an opportunity to see how they will stack up against some of the competition they will encounter at the conference meet on Oct.