Wednesday, December 25, 2024

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

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 large 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

have been seven to 9 miles, with a frontrunner dropping items of paper or flags exhibiting 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 colleges, most states now run 3 miles or 5k.

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

onerous approach, racing into form.

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

Runners have totally different objectives.

Some wish to full the season.

Most wish to run their greatest instances.

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 operating within the regionals and making nationals within the 2024 FootLocker (sponsored by HOKA) Cross Nation Championships.

No matter your objective, it’s time to practice.

RunBlogRun will present you day by day coaching solutions, 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 (through @twitter)

Hyperlink to NIKE NXN web site: 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 straightforward to reasonable operating, 10-12 instances 300 meter hill fees, 6 x 150 meter stride-outs,

Cooldown nicely, and keep in mind to hydrate.

Test your sneakers and make it possible for your coaching sneakers

are prepared for 12-18 extra weeks of coaching.

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

We are going to discuss that quickly!

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

  • 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 presently manages the content material and advertising and marketing improvement of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his day by 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, essentially the most of something I’ve ever performed, besides, possibly operating itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he really enjoys. Theme music: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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