Welcome to the Sidious Mac podcast. I'm Chris Chavez. I am Kyle Merber and I am McFleet.

On today's show, we recap the 2023 US cross country championships and share who is headed

to represent Team USA at the world cross country championships next month in Australia.

Mac is going to tell us a bit about his trip to Boulder where he got to witness the on athletics

clubs, crazy workouts that have blown up the internet this week. Plus, it's going to be a remarkable

weekend of track and field action. So we're going to pick some of the key races to watch at the

Lilac Grand Prix, the Dr. Sander invitational, the BU Terrier Classic and the Razorback invitational.

But let's start by welcoming back Mac to the show. You've had quite an eventful last

couple of days set the scene for us. I guess like this trip, it was a pretty last minute plan.

You kind of heard through the grapevine. There was going to be some big workout being thrown down

and we got invited, which is cool because I mean, it's not every single time that a team

you know opens the store and says, Hey, like this is something something cool is going to happen.

Yeah, you know, we're always looking for YouTube content. So I had a spare weekend and you know,

texted readings today. What does the crew's schedule look like before you guys go to Boston for the

BU meet? And yeah, he said the crew's going to have a pretty big workout on Sunday. So I think

the Thursday or Friday before we, you know, I got my ticket and headed out there and

weeding told me what the pace is we're likely to be. And I texted you guys that we might get a

sub four, you know, for the men and we might get a sub four 34. We describe the split situation,

the splits that were on paper, would they add it up to and what it was supposed to be?

In the parentheses, it said 406, but the splits added up to 402. And which is like, I would say a

very normal thing for a lot of good coaches. It's like the 406 is probably the correct like

math pace, but the 402 is like, yeah, you could also run 402 and we'll be happy with that. But

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