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2024 Fall Cross Nation Coaching & Racing Program, October 1, 2024, Week 3, Day 2, TUESDAY is hill day!

October 1, 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 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 displaying the next runners the place to go.

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

exhausting approach, racing into form.

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

Runners have totally different objectives.

Some need to full the season.

Most need to run their greatest occasions.

Some need 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 day by day coaching ideas, to be your best possible this season!

Peka Pavirinta and Neil Cusack (#30), Mariano Haro at 1973 World Cross Nation , by Working in Cork, Eire

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  2, October 1, 2024

Heat-up properly,

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

Cooldown properly, and keep in mind to hydrate.

Verify your sneakers and be sure that your coaching sneakers

are prepared for 12-18 extra weeks of coaching.

If not, go to a neighborhood working retailer and discover one or two pairs of fine coaching sneakers.

We’ll discuss that quickly!

Brian Barraza,
Sound Working
Cross Champs, picture by Kevin Morris

  • 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 the moment manages the content material and advertising 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 distant 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 carried out, besides, possibly working itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he really enjoys. Theme track: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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