Photo by Steven Pham
Interview with Misha Suresh - #5 Runner on VA #1 ranked Lake Braddock girls XC team
How did you get started running and why?
One of my good friends convinced me to join track my freshman year and originally I wasn’t going to, but she persuaded me otherwise. So I started off as a sprinter and I ended up loving the team and the sport so I continued with it. Then in sophomore year I did mid-distance events and my coach told me to join cross country so I started that during junior year and I’ve been doing long distance ever since.
What kind of training did you do over the summer to prepare for the season?
Right after outdoor track ended, our coaches gave us workouts to do until our summer training started. Summer training begins the first week of July and most of the team just meets every morning at Burke Lake. We do a lot of interval and pace run type workouts along with long runs. We also do a lot of c...
