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2024 Fall Cross Nation Coaching & Racing Program, October 13, 2024, Week 4, Day 7, A Long term for Sunday

October 14, 2024
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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 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.

The large deal is, as now, runners speaking about their races afterward!

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 most of the new runners to cross-country are getting in form for the

laborious approach, racing into form.

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

Katie Izzo, Cross Champs by Sound Operating
11 30 2023, picture by Kevin Morris

Runners have totally different objectives.

Some need to full the season.

Most need to run their greatest instances.

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 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 every day coaching strategies, to be your best possible 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 properly,

85-90 minutes of average operating, with some rolling hills (freshman/sophmores ought to run 65-70 minutes)

Cooldown properly, and bear in mind to hydrate.

Verify your sneakers and guarantee that your coaching sneakers

are prepared for 12-18 extra weeks of coaching.

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

We are going to discuss that quickly!

Olin Hacker, Sound Operating
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 printed in RW in 1983. Larry has printed 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 growth of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his every day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I really like touring to far-off meets, writing in regards to the sport I really like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, probably the most of something I’ve ever accomplished, besides, possibly operating itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he actually enjoys. Theme track: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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