Cross country is the most pure sport there is, said Kinnick junior Talan Farrington, who won three in-season races, the DODEA-Pacific Far East Division I title and the Kanto Plain finals. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)
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Summers in Japan’s Kanto Plain can be extraordinarily toasty, with heat indexes soaring into the high 90s and low 100s during the peak months of August and September.
It’s then that Talan Farrington did the bulk of his training for the 2024 DODEA-Pacific cross country season. Large amounts of running, which the Nile C. Kinnick junior says demonstrated to him how cross country is as honest a sport at it gets.
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