The 2024 Cross Country season is over.
This is the first day of easy running.
good warm up
30 minutes of easy jogging
cool well
Check your shoes and make sure your training shoes
ready for the final weeks of training (most shoes make up 8-12 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.
Our Christmas gift suggestion: Quicksilver, the Mercurial Emil Zatopek, a book by Pat Butcher. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32739986-quicksilver
One of the best books I’ve ever read.I met and interviewed Emil Zatopek and Pat Butcher was better than most.
Emil Zatopek rewrote the record books from 5000m to 20000m and one hour.
He invented double threshold learning.
He was a patriot as well as a Marxist who was demoted in the Czech army after supporting the Czech Spring Uprising of 1968.
He is the only person to win 5000m, 10000m and marathon gold in the same Olympics (1952).
When he finished the marathon, his wife Daniela was winning the javelin.
She is incredibly inspiring and a great holiday read.
