[lighthearted acoustic music]
The final days of summer are always fleeting.
While most students were moving back to campus,
the Ole Miss Cross Country team
was getting ready for the start of a new season
at their annual training camp.
[lighthearted acoustic music]
How's it going?
Hey Moulai, you sitting in the front?
With their bags packed,
the Rebels hit the road for a four hour trip to
Hot Springs, Arkansas.
A historic town,
offering hiking trails,
downtown sights,
scenic overlooks,
and of course,
the well-known hot springs--
It's hot!
--the town was named after.
[upbeat music]
[rain falling loudly]
[thunder crashing]
Welcome to--
[girls laughing]
All right, so this is our pull out couch.
These are some girl's crying cutting some peppers.
No onions.
[girls laugh]
And we got some onions going on the stove,
some rice, we gotta loft upstairs.
It's quaint, cozy.
Back downstairs.
Tonight for dinner we are having
burritos, like Chipotle style
but better because we're making it.
I think the girls are better at cooking.
Yeah, for sure.
I think they'd beg to differ though.
They would definitely beg to differ.
We may be a little biased.
We hit a low point last year,
but we're back and better than ever.
It was not just the girls who were biased.
Burritos brought out a little friendly
competition in everyone.
And the guys felt pretty confident
in their own bold menu choice.
You got it catered by Chipotle.
It does look pretty good. Yeah it looks pretty awesome.
Do you agree with me Parker?
What?
1 out of 10 because it's the girls team.
Ours is probably just gonna be like 11 out of 10.
What do you think Parker?
Maybe not Chef Ramsey quality
but I'm sure it'll be--
You know I'd probably give it a solid 7 out of 10.
You know the boys are gonna put
on a show tomorrow and that's all that really matters.
[rock music]
We are now officially underway. Okay?
Lot's of good stuff out there this morning,
lot's of good things that we saw.
We have exciting times ahead for everybody here.
[applause]
[sizzling]
They say Griffin you're so good at grilling,
that you need to become the grill, I'm kidding.
They did not say that.
Food!
I love food.
God food is so good.
Answer this, burgers are they gonna
be better or worse than the burritos
last night from the girls team?
Oh 100% better, we always win what do you mean?
Coccia makes a great Pad Thai as well.
Here's a little [mumbles] mostly this big battle organ down here.
Carne seed.
We got some chicken fried up.
We put--dress it with a little green onions,
there'll be some more of those don't worry.
There'll be more in the works.
Feeling pretty good, we're feeling good.
There it is.
[lighthearted acoustic music]
[laughter]
[lighthearted acoustic music]
[fire crackles]
As the final hours of summer come to an end,
the team takes time to relax before the tough day ahead.
[lighthearted acoustic music]
So today we're doing our long run
this is our last day of camp this is Sunday morning.
This is sort of a end of camp,
start of the official cross country season.
Typically it's a pretty
difficult run we try to cap the week
with a good hard long run.
Obviously doing a long hard run
once a week just really helps you build
a base of endurance for every athlete
800 meters through 10K everybody in our
program does a long run on Sundays.
It's just kind of a consistent pillar
building block of our program
people come to know and love as a Rebel.
[suspenseful music]
Water?
Yeah.
I'm okay.
Oh the tough girl huh? Tough girls.
All right no water.
This makes [mumbles]--
You were not kidding about those rolling hills.
I told ya.
Whoo, geez Louise.
You guys are doing great keep it up.
[suspenseful music]
I'm done.
Hardest run of your life?
Yeah I've never seen so many hills.
Yeah, we've never run a run this hard
like this route at camp.
I was fine when with Emma and Elkin,
but then when we turned I was like--
Yeah that's fine.
Let's do it. Let's do it.
I mean it's not too bad going that way,
but going back.
I'm gonna go out tonight, I'm gonna [mumbles].
You're gonna sleep the whole drive home probably.
If I got a good seat but I got a terrible one.
Pretty good. Hills sucks.
Besides that a long run's a long run, gotta do it.
Gotta get better anyway.
[upbeat music]