Our coaches have been in communication with Fulton County Schools about summer practice for fall sports and it looks like our Captain’s Summer Runs will be on hold at least until after dead week (June 28 – July 4). We learned that one Fulton County XC team has been reported for training in a large group and not practicing social distancing. While running on your own isn’t as fun as with the team, please be sure to adhere to the guidelines. You are welcome to run with a couple of friends, but please practice social distancing with yourselves and other runners/walkers.
For those new to cross country, we wanted to provide a list of local parks, trails available for our athletes to train on. We are hoping to have our captains available on different days to allow 2-3 new MXC runners to learn these training routes with a captain and to help add some variety to their training. Look for a signupgenius link soon.
Summit Hill Elementary School
13855 Providence Rd, Alpharetta, GA 30004 | Long Run/loop/out and back – to Birmingham Falls Elementary School via Wood Road = approximately 6.3 miles | Shorter run of all dirt roads (out and back on each) east of Freemanville Road = approximately 4.5 miles
Wills Park
11925 Wills Rd, Alpharetta, GA 30009 | 1 loop = approximately 1 1/2 miles
Milton High School
13025 Birmingham Hwy, Milton, GA 30004 (No training on Milton XC Trail) Run to Sweet Apple Elementary School and back = Approximately 5 miles or Run to Wills Park and back = Approximately 6 miles. Remember to use the cross walks and to be careful and good citizens
Sweet Apple Elementary School
12025 Etris Rd, Roswell, GA 30075 | 1 loop = Approximately 1 mile
Hembree Park
850 Hembree Rd, Roswell, GA 30076 | 1 loop = Approximately 1 mile
Roswell Area Park
10495 Woodstock Rd, Roswell, GA 30075 | Variety of loop lengths from 1 mile to 3.1 miles
The Big Creek Greenway
Multiple parking locations for this trail | Trail length depends on you.
Running Logs
Please track your summer runs via the electronic summer running log. (Get your key here.) The first day to track your summer miles was May 23rd.
