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2024 Fall Cross Nation Coaching & Racing Program, October 5, 2024, Week 3, Day 6, SATURDAY is race day!

October 6, 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

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

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

Mia Cochran and Paityn Noe, 2024 Chile Pepper Traditional, images by Chile Pepper Traditional

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 manner, 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 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 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 practice.

RunBlogRun will present you each day coaching strategies, to be your best possible this season!

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

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  5, October 5, 2024

Heat-up effectively,

20-Half-hour of average operating, with some sprints, 5k-8k cross nation race, work the hills, work on lengthy kick (800m out),

Cooldown effectively, and bear 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 a neighborhood operating retailer and discover one or two pairs of fine coaching footwear.

We are going to discuss that quickly!

Eliud Kipchoge, Tokyo 2021, picture by NN Operating Crew.

  • 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 each day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I really like touring to distant 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 executed, besides, possibly operating 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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