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2024 Fall Cross Nation Coaching & Racing Program, September 28, 2024, Week 2, Day 6, Saturday is race day!

September 29, 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 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 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 lots of the new runners to cross-country are getting in form for the

laborious method, racing into form.

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

Runners have completely different targets.

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 aim, it’s time to prepare.

RunBlogRun will present you every day coaching options, to be your easiest this season!

Sifan Hassan, TCS London Marathon
London, England, United Kingdom
April 23, 2023, photograph by Kevin Morris

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

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

Wednesday, Week 2, Day  6, September 28, 2024

Heat-up effectively,

half-hour warm-up, 5k cross nation race, focus in your final 800 meters, improve the tempo 4 instances, over the past 200m break,

quarter-hour straightforward operating,

Cooldown effectively, and bear in mind to hydrate.

Examine your footwear and be sure that your coaching footwear

are prepared for 12-18 extra weeks of coaching.

If not, go to an area operating retailer and discover one or two pairs of excellent coaching footwear.

We are going to talk about that quickly!

Sifan Hassan, Doha 2019, photograph by World Athletics

  • 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 improvement of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his every day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I like touring to distant meets, writing in regards to the sport I like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, essentially the most of something I’ve ever executed, besides, perhaps 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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