Nation’s Quiet, Gangly Kids In Cargo Pants Announce Plans To Be Freakishly Good At Cross Country

AURORA, IL—Confirming they would soon emerge from the nation’s basements, computer labs, and AP History classrooms to dominate 5K courses across the nation, America’s quiet, gangly kids in cargo pants announced Wednesday that they planned to be freakishly good at cross country this fall. “You’ll assume that our gaunt, 118-pound bodies are incapable of athletic achievement, but the reality is we’re going to show up to the first meet having barely practiced and run a 15:42,” said 16-year-old runner Caleb Woodford, awkwardly staring at the ground as several rail-thin teenagers with buzz cuts, filthy neon running spikes, khaki cargo pants, and T-shirts bearing slogans like “My Sport is Your Sport’s Punishment” nodded behind him, each somehow both pale and sporting some of the most severe tan lines ever observed on a human body. “We’ll look visibly uncomfortable in every conceivable social setting, but we will be terrifyingly graceful once we start running three miles through the mud. We intend to eat dozens of chicken nuggets at a time without gaining an ounce, we will dry heave in the woods on a daily basis, and we will get extremely good grades in school. We have no normal interests. We just like running.” At press time, reports confirmed the teens had begun silently stretching against trees in preparation for running nine miles for fun.

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