Most of the 560,000 high school boys and girls in cross country competed in high school in 2024 and raced over the weekend, including many state meets!
Stay focused on Thursday!
Cross country is a real key to developing as a great distance runner!
JP Flavin, Sound RunningCross Champs,photo by Kevin Morris
30 minutes of moderate running, 8 x 400m hills, jog down, 8 x 200m hills, jog down,
cool-down well,
Check your shoes and make sure that your training shoes
are ready for 10-14 more weeks of training. (Most shoes make it 12-16 weeks of training)
If not, go to a local running store and find one or two pairs of good training shoes.
We will speak about that soon!
Katie Wasserman, Cross Champs by Sound Running11 30 2023, photo by Kevin Morris
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: “I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, ” I’m no Angel.”
