2024 Fall Cross Nation Coaching & Racing Program, October 22, 2024, Week 6, Day 2, Tuesday is a hill day!

The 2024 Cross Nation season is right here! 

Tuesday is a hill day!

Many of the 560,000 highschool girls and boys in cross nation are competing in highschool cross nation in 2024!

Tuesday is an effective laborious day!

Galen Rupp, 2016 Rio Olympic marathon, photograph by Jeff Benjamin

Galen Rupp is a 4 time Olympian (2008-10,000m, 2012-10,000m Olympic silver, 2016-Marathon-Olympic bronze, 2021-Marathon), who has had a protracted profession in working. We first noticed Galen as a sophomore in highschool on the AAU Junior Olympic 5,000m. The following fall, i watched Galen compete within the Nike Border Conflict, ending third. In 2003, Galen Rupp got here again and gained the Nike Border Conflict. In his senior yr, Galen gained his first NCAA title in cross nation, out-Kicking Sam Chelanga!

Galen Rupp all the time offers credit score to his expertise in cross nation because it helped construct him for the roads, observe and marathoning. Galen Rupp loves cross nation!

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

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

Wednesday, Week 6, Day  2,  October 22, 2024

Heat-up nicely,

half-hour of reasonable working, 8 x 400m hill, jog down, 8 x 200m hill, jog down, 8 x 100m hill, jog down,

Cooldown nicely, and bear in mind to hydrate.

Verify your footwear and make it possible for your coaching footwear

are prepared for 12-18 extra weeks of coaching. (Most footwear make it 12-16 weeks of coaching)

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

We’ll talk about that quickly!

Frank Shorter, Sports activities Illustrated cowl, 1976, photograph and credit score to Sports activities Illustrated.

Frank Shorter gained 4 AAU cross nation titles, was on a number of US World Cross Nation groups and gained two Olympic medals, gold and silver within the Marathon (1972 and 1976). Frank Shorter set ARs from 2 miles indoor to the Marathon. He was a cross nation animal.

  • 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 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 far-off meets, writing in regards to the sport I really like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, essentially 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 actually enjoys. Theme tune: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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