Blogs : Beth Lutz

After a 5-month hiatus I figured a short reintroduction was in order. My name is Beth Lutz and I’m a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where I run both cross-country and track and field (distance). In 2007 I was an NCAA DIII Cross-Country All American (29th place). I was looking forward to translating that success onto the track, but in January I got a mid-shaft femoral stress fracture that derailed my track season. I’ve been (slowly) working on building back into things and am coming into this cross-country season in not so good of shape as I could have wished, but healthy and ready to run.

There will be 90 days of practice before the 2008 NCAA DIII Cross-Country Championships in Hanover, Indiana. 90 days of hard training, long days, races, crazy mad fun with teammates, and all the other things that go with cross-country. My team has a goal to make the podium at that race. I have a goal to once again achieve All-American status. These 90 days will make all the difference.