2024 Fall Cross Country Training and Race Schedule October 17, 2024 Week 5 Day 4 Thursday is a mountain day

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The 2024 Cross Country season is here!

It’s time to race!

560,000 high school boys and girls are running cross country this fall.

Six weeks into the season (eight weeks for some), racing is well underway.

Why do we push hills?

Hills are many trainers’ secret sauce.

Elite athletes love pitch work because it can replace speed work, help build strength, and can be done anywhere you can find an incline.

Link to the NIKE NXN website. https://nxn.runnerspace.com

Link to FootLocker Cross Country Championships by HOKA. https://footlockercc.com/

Wednesday, Week 5, Day 4, October 17, 2024

good warm up

60 meter hill fartlek, ten minutes hard, ten minutes easy, 4 x 5 minutes hard hill climb, 5 minutes easy,

Cool down well and remember to hydrate.

Check your shoes and make sure your training shoes

ready for another 12-18 weeks of training.

If not, go to a local running store and find a pair or two of good training shoes.

We will talk about that soon.

Larry Eder has been involved in athletics for 52 years. Larry has experienced sports as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now a journalist and blogger. His first article, about Don Bowden, America’s first 4-minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from USA Track and Field to the American version of Spikes magazine. He currently leads content and marketing development for RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. On RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: “I must admit, I love traveling to long distance meets, writing about the sport I love and the athletes I respect, most of all for my readers at runblogrun.com. than anything I’ve ever done, except maybe running itself.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports at major events which he really enjoys. Theme Song: “I’m No Angel” by Gregg Allman.

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