The 2016 season for the Loyola cross country teams was full of unnecessary stops and starts. It was a season defined more by injuries and illnesses than by races. This season, the Ramblers are putting an added focus on remaining healthy through the whole season.
Keeping injuries to a minimum can be hard when training so intensely, but both coaches Mircea Bogdan and Alan Peterson are taking extra precautions with the team this season.
“Keeping people healthy and avoiding injuries [is going to be the biggest challenge],” Bogdan said. “Last year we did a good job of keeping people healthy in terms of injuries, but we weren’t very healthy in terms of sickness.