In a year in which the NCAA indoor, outdoor and cross country championships have been canceled due to COVID-19, it’s safe to say that a mid-October invitational cross country meet has never been more anticipated than Saturday’s OSU Invitational in Stillwater, Oklahoma. 

One of the cooler features of our recent series following the Northern Arizona men’s cross country team, Running With The Boys, was the inside glimpse at many of the unique places where the Lumberjacks train. Our cameras followed Mike Smith’s team from the mountainous trails of their home base in Flagstaff, Arizona, to their workouts on the road before and after meets in Madison, Wisconsin, and Terre Haute, Indiana.

When they line up on the start line at Saturday’s NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, it will have been 1,471 days since the Northern Arizona men’s team lost a varsity race.