by Larry Eder
This is day 4, of week 1 of our RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program. If you follow our program, you will be ready for your fall cross country team.
Today, we are writing about Elle Purrier, who would like us to refer to her as Elle St. Pierre. Elle won her first global medal in Belgrade, Serbia in the 3000m at the 2022 World Indoors in March. She ran a masterful race in Belgrade, and moved to challenge with 300m to go, taking second position with just over 200m to go and held it, taking an awesome silver.
In a story that we published this morning, her coach, Mark Coogan, 1992 and 1996 Olympian, revealed that Elle St. Pierre was battling COVID in the weeks prior to the US Champs, making it even harder to make the US team. Coogan said that Elle was at 85 % at the US Champs and will be at 100 % in Eugene for the World Champs. To be in medal contention, Elle St. Pierre, like her competitors, will have to bring her A + game to the track! Good luck Elle!
Your workout for today, Thursday, July 7, 2022 is, warm up, 40 minute fartlek, with ten minutes moderate and 10 times 1 minute hard, 1 minute easy, then 10 more moderate minutes, and a cooldown. Do this workout on good footing.
