Cross Country

Cross Country

Each year the Cross Country season is held in Semester 1 from January to June. Although the official season commences at the end of Term 1, preseason commences from the beginning of the school year and culminates at the GPS Cross Country Championships in June.

Cross Country encourages students to set goals as part of a regular, structured training programme, which includes sessions at the School and at the Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre. Individually, Churchie runners regularly compete at regional, state and national levels.

As a team, Churchie has a proud history at the GPS Cross Country Championships winning 17 premierships in total—the most of any GPS School. Other highlights of the Cross Country programme are the annual three-day running camp held during the mid-semester break and the Churchie Enduro, a six-hour race where teams of four runners compete to see who can cover the most distance.

In addition to these events, in 2013, 12 runners travelled to Kenya on a tour, which involved participating in a service project, seeing and experiencing the culture and spending five days training in iconic Iten, where the best distance runners in the world originate.


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