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2024 Fall Cross Nation Coaching & Racing Program, September 25, 2024, Week 2, Day Three, Wednesday is a simple day.

September 28, 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.

(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

have 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 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

laborious manner, racing into form.

RunBlogRun simply accomplished its ten-week Summer time 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 working 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 recommendations, to be your easiest this season!

Connor Winter, Sound Operating
Cross Champs, picture by Kevin Morris/ for Sound Operating

 

Hyperlink to NIKE NXN website: https://nxn.runnerspace.com

Hyperlink to FootLocker Cross Nation Championships by HOKA: https://footlockercc.com/

Wednesday, Week 2, Day  3, September 25, 2024

Heat-up nicely,

50-60 minutes of reasonable working,

six occasions 150 meter stride outs,

Cooldown nicely, and bear in mind to hydrate.

Test your footwear and ensure that your coaching footwear

are prepared for 12-18 extra weeks of coaching.

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

We’ll discuss that quickly!

Katie Izzo, Cross Champs by Sound Operating
11 30 2023, 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 present manages the content material and advertising growth of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his each 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 achieved, besides, perhaps working itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he really enjoys. Theme tune: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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