The men’s 3,000m is shaping up to be one of the deepest distance events in collegiate history.

As it does year-after-year, the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational will play host to dozens of ranked programs on Friday at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course.

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.