by Alfonz JuckThe high school track season has ended. Nice one mile and 2 mile records by Katelyn Tuohy at NB outdoors, a fine event. We encourage all track athletes to take a two week break after season. You will have great meets from Europe to watch on TV and streaming this summer. The USA Outdoors are in Des Moines, June 21-24. Lots of opportunities to watch the USA Outdoors (check out our friends at runnerspace.com).
Nearly 600,000 high school boys and girls will run cross country in North America this fall. RunBlogRun.com, sponsored by HOKAONEONE for the fifth year, will be supporting the 24 week cross country training program we do for high school athletes and their coaches. As always, we provide suggestions on a moderate program, and video tips from the coaches at HOKA ONE ONE’s NJNYTC and Northern Arizona Elite. If you have specific questions, please email us at runblogrun@gmail.com and we will do our best to help you find resources for your training programs.
CeAira Brown, Martinez Memorial, photo by Kevin Morris
We really would like to suggest that you try the www.hokaoneonepostalnationals.com. It is a five person team series of events that is over 2 miles and 3200 meters. It’s orgins date back to the 1950s and our friends at www.trackandfieldnews.com (if you love track & cross country, you will worship TFN).
This is week 3 of recovery, enjoy it. 4 days of running and three days off. Today is an off day. Check out the new Star Wars movie, I hear it is good.
Tuesday, June 19, 2018-day off
RunBlogrun has suggested that high school distance runners, and middle distance runners, take a break of two weeks after their track season ends. Well, this is the third week of the Recovery, and we run 4 days, keeping it mellow. For those who just ended, take two weeks off, just run 2-3 days a week. If you are getting ready for cross country, follow our program (make sure you run it by Coach, very important, we want to help your coaches, not hinder them). If you are a upper classman, you might want to, in July add three morning runs a week. And always remember, foot health is key. Consider two pairs of training shoes for summer mileage, and alternate the shoes. Vary terrain, from grass to trails to roads. Give yourself a few weeks to get your body use to summer heat, so run early or late.
If you have questions, send us notes at runblogrun@gmail.com and we will get back to you.
Week 3, Early Season, Recovery from Track
Monday-warm up, easy 35-40 minutes, cooldown
Tuesday-day off
Wednesday-warm up-easy 35-40 minutes, cooldown
Thursday-day off
Friday-warm up, easy 35-40 minutes, cooldown
Saturday-day off
Sunday-warm up, 40-45 minutes, running on trail, cool down
