2024 Fall Cross Country Training and Racing Schedule November 16, 2024 Week 9 Day 6 Big day at the race.

November 18, 2024

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The 2024 Cross Country season is here!

Saturday is race day.

Most of the country has had state meetings (California is the latest, on November 30).

runners prepare for the NIKE NXN and 45th FootLocker Presented by HOKA Cross Country Championships.

We take some ideas from the great Australian trainer Pat Clohessy, who trained Rob De Castella and Steve Moneghetti.

Cross Country is the real key to developing as a distance runner.

For most high schoolers competing at NXN and FootLocker, there are six more weeks of training and racing ahead.

If you’re not competing in an NXN race, find a good 5k-8k and focus on the race.

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

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

Week 9, Day 6, Saturday, November 16, 2024

good warm up

5k XC race or 5k to 8k road race, 30 minutes moderate run,

cool well

Check your shoes and make sure your training shoes

ready for another 8-9 weeks of training (most shoes make up 12 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 the sport of track and field for 52 years. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now as a journalist. His first article on Don Bowden, America’s first 4-minute miler, was published in 1983. : Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the American version of Spikes magazine Content and Marketing Development for RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun On his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says, “I have to admit, I love traveling to long distance meets, writing about the sport I love and the athletes I respect, for my runblogrun.com readers the most of anything I’ve ever done , except maybe running himself.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports, which he really enjoys. Theme song, “I’m No Angel.”

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