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2024 Fall Cross Nation Coaching & Racing Program, October 1, 2024, Week 3, Day 4, THURSDAY is hill day!

October 4, 2024
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The 2024 Cross Nation season is right here! 

Cross nation is in full swing throughout the U.S. for prime schoolers.

560-570,000 highschool girls and boys will run cross nation throughout the fifty U.S. states in 2024.

(Cross-country can also be huge in Europe, Asia, and Africa!)

Cross Nation has been round for a number of hundred years, beginning within the 1830s-1840s in England with hounds and harrier runs. A few of these runs

had been seven to 9 miles, with a pacesetter dropping items of paper or flags displaying the next runners the place to go.

Senior males’s main pack with Nicholas Kimeli and Sebastian Kimaru within the combine, picture by Justin Lagat, Iten, Kenya, December 3, 2022.

In US excessive faculties, most states now run 3 miles or 5k.

Most states have had cross-country races for a number of weeks now, and lots of the new runners to cross-country are getting in form for the

onerous method, racing into form.

RunBlogRun simply accomplished its ten-week Summer season Program (July-September 15) for highschool cross-country runners.

Runners have completely different objectives.

Some wish to full the season.

Most wish to run their finest occasions.

Some wish to make it to regionals, sectionals, or state meets.

Some dream of their groups making NXN Regionals or the NIKE NXN Championships.

Some dream of working within the regionals and making nationals within the 2024 FootLocker (sponsored by HOKA) Cross Nation Championships.

No matter your purpose, it’s time to prepare.

RunBlogRun will present you every day coaching options, to be your best this season!

The 2021 SPAR European Athletics Cross Nation Championships, 12/12/21, Senior Males’s race, picture courtesy of European Athletics (by way of @twitter)

Hyperlink to NIKE NXN website: https://nxn.runnerspace.com

Hyperlink to FootLocker Cross Nation Championships by HOKA: https://footlockercc.com/

Wednesday, Week 3, Day  4, October 3, 2024

Heat-up nicely,

half-hour of simple to average working, 10-12 occasions 300 meter hill expenses, 6 x 150 meter stride-outs,

Cooldown nicely, and keep in mind to hydrate.

Examine your footwear and make it possible for your coaching footwear

are prepared for 12-18 extra weeks of coaching.

If not, go to an area working retailer and discover one or two pairs of fine coaching footwear.

We are going to discuss that quickly!

Eliud Kipchoge, coaching in Kenya, picture by NN Operating staff

  • Larry Eder

    Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement within the sport of athletics. Larry has skilled the game as an athlete, coach, journal writer, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was revealed in RW in 1983. Larry has revealed a number of magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. model of Spikes journal. He at present manages the content material and advertising and marketing improvement of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his every day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I like touring to far-off meets, writing concerning the sport I like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, probably the most of something I’ve ever accomplished, besides, perhaps working itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he actually enjoys. Theme music: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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