The 2024 Cross Nation season is right here!
The 2024 Cross Nation season is attending to the excessive season!
560-570,000 highschool girls and boys will run cross nation throughout the fifty U.S. states in 2024.
(Cross-country can 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.
The large deal is, as now, runners speaking about their races afterward!
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 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 time Program (July-September 15) for highschool cross-country runners.
11 30 2023, photograph by Kevin Morris
Runners have completely different targets.
Some wish to full the season.
Most wish to run their greatest 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 operating within the regionals and making nationals within the 2024 FootLocker (sponsored by HOKA) Cross Nation Championships.
No matter your aim, it’s time to prepare.
RunBlogRun will present you each day coaching recommendations, to be your absolute best this season!
Hyperlink to NIKE NXN website: https://nxn.runnerspace.com
Hyperlink to FootLocker Cross Nation Championships by HOKA: https://footlockercc.com/
Wednesday, Week 4, Day 7, October 13, 2024
Heat-up effectively,
85-90 minutes of average operating, with some rolling hills (freshman/sophmores ought to run 65-70 minutes)
Cooldown effectively, and bear in mind to hydrate.
Verify your footwear and make it possible for your coaching footwear
are prepared for 12-18 extra weeks of coaching.
If not, go to a neighborhood operating retailer and discover one or two pairs of excellent coaching footwear.
We’ll talk about that quickly!
Cross Champs, photograph by Kevin Morris
