As you get closer and closer to the Fall cross country season, make sure that you are focusing on your runs, making sure your shoes are in good shape and getting the rest and nutrition that you need.
Make it a point of running the long run, tempo run and hill runs with friends, as it keeps the hard workouts a bit more relaxed.
Make sure that you warm up and cool down, taking the right time to do both. Races are won by inches, not miles and the attention to detail is key in your success.
Saucony Carrera XC, photo by Saucony Running
Saucony RunBlogRun Summer Mileage Program
Wednesday: Warm up, 45-50 minute run, 8 times 150 meters stride outs, done at current 800m to 1,500m pace, cooldown
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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