The 2024 Cross Country season is here!
Monday is an easy day.
Most of the 560,000 high school boys and girls in 2024 competed in high school and participated in weekends, including multiple state meets. For many people, Sunday is a long day and Monday is an easy day.
Cross Country is the real key to developing as a distance runner.
Frank Shorter is one of the most important runners in American track history. Frank started out as a high school cross country runner, track and field skier. In college (Yale), his track coach convinced Frank that he would be a very good distance runner if he stopped skiing. So Frank focused on running (his junior year) and won the NCAA six mile his senior year.
Frank Shorter won the Fukuoka Marathon 4 times (1970-1974), then won a gold medal in the 1972 Munich Olympic Marathon and a silver medal in the Montreal Marathon. Frank won 4 straight AAU Cross Country Championships and ran AR from 2 miles to the marathon.
Link to the NIKE NXN website. https://nxn.runnerspace.com
Link to FootLocker Cross Country Championships by HOKA. https://footlockercc.com/
Monday, Week 8, Day 1, Monday, November 4, 2024
good warm up
45-65 minutes of moderate running, 6 x 150m runs,
cool well
Check your shoes and make sure your training shoes
are ready for another 10-14 weeks of training. (Most boots make up a 12-16 week workout)
If not, go to a local running store and find a pair or two of good training shoes.
We will talk about that soon.
