Don’t underestimate the importance of easy days for your development.
Last weekend, most of the 560,000 high school boys and girls competing in high school cross country in 2024 raced.
Wednesday should be about taking it easy and allowing your body to recover.
Remember, recovery runs are crucial for your body to benefit from tough training days.
Cross country is a vital part of becoming a successful distance runner!
Warming up with the Brooks Beasts TC, photo by Zeth Peterka.
Link to NIKE NXN site: https://nxn.runnerspace.com
Link to FootLocker Cross Country Championships by HOKA: https://footlockercc.com/
Monday, Week 7, Day 3, October 30, 2024
Be sure to warm up properly,
Run moderately for 45-65 minutes, do 6 x 150 meter stride-outs, then cool down properly.
Check your shoes and make sure your training shoes are prepared for 10-14 more weeks of training (most shoes last 12-16 weeks).
If needed, visit a local running store to find good training shoes.
We’ll discuss this further soon!
It’s going to be a hard day for the Brooks Beasts TC! photo by Zeth Pekestra for Brooks Running
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.”
