2024 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, September 16, 2024, Week 1, Day 1, Let’s get started!

Cross country is in full swing across the U.S. for high schoolers.

560-570,000 high school boys and girls will run cross country across the fifty U.S. states.

Most states have had cross country races for several weeks now, and many of the new runners to cross country are getting in shape the

hard way, racing into shape.

RunBlogRun just completed its ten-week Summer Program (July-September 15) for high school cross-country runners.

Runners have different goals.

Some want to complete the season.

Some want to run their best times.

Some want to make it to regionals, sectionals or state meets.

Some dream of their teams making NXN Regionals or the NIKE NXN Championships.

Some have dreams of running in the regionals and making nationals in the 2024 FootLocker (sponsored by HOKA) Cross Country Championships.

Whatever your goal, it is time to train.

RunBlogRun will provide you daily training suggestions.

Our cover photo today is Futsum Zeinasellassie. Futsum was 7th, and second twice at the FootLocker Cross Country Championshps. In 2011, Futsum won the NIKE NXN in 15:02, winning by 24 seconds! Futsum went on to Northern Arizona University and now runs for HOKA Northern Arizona Elite!

Monday, Week 1, Day 1, September 16, 2024

Warm-up well,

45-55 minutes of moderate running, on trails, or in a park.

Finish with 6 x 150 meter stride-outs,

Cooldown well, and remember to hydrate.

Check your shoes and make sure that your training shoes

are ready for 12-18 more 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 tomorrow!

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.”

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