The cross country season, for most of the country, is in week two. While many have trained all summer, the racing season starts getting hot over the next couple of weeks. If you are racing two to three times a week, count those as hard days. Consider, after cooling down from your race, doing eight times a 150 stride out, quick, but gentle on the legs, and then, a gentle mile cooldown. Make sure your days between racing are easy, so your body can recover.
Saucony RBR Fall Cross Country Training Program, Week Twelve, Day Five….
If you are a college runner or an advanced runner, consider the 30-40 minute runs on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.
Friday: Warm up; 45-50 minutes easy running; 8×150 yards relaxed strideouts on grass, jogging back to the start after each, no rest between; cool down.
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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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