Hearts beating heavily. Breaths becoming short. Legs tiring with pain. The last thing you would be expecting to see, while running a 5k, is coming around a corner and seeing a fellow teammate dressed in a batman suit.

This is something the boys and girls cross country team goes through every meet. Teammates try and find any costume they can to go dress up in after they run and cheer on the rest of their team while running.

“All cheering helps, but when you see someone coming around the corner, it lifts your spirits seeing someone dressed up like that,” junior Andrew Shannon said.

There various uniforms the team wears can go from a cow suit, to a doctor suit, to a bacon and eggs suit. Senior Ean Thielbar brings these items either from his house that he just has laying around, or from different Halloween places, or Goodwill.

“When I first started cross country, there were girls dressed in skirts and I wanted to take it a step farther, so the tradition was passed down to me” Thielbar said.

A few reasons for the team dressing up like this can be a sense of pride by showing who they are, by being weird.

“I love the attention, I like the look people give me and the difference (I feel) that people get from my cheering,” Thielbar said. “The more unique I am, the better I feel”