This is week 3, day four, of the 2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage. If you give us eight weeks, we will get you in shape for the fall cross country season.
Cross country is one of the most popular sports in the world. In the high school sport, there will be 550,000 boys and girls running cross country in the U.S. Sixteen thousand high schools have cross country programs, and 19,000 have track & field programs.
Many high school cross country runners do not run over the summer. Those who do see the benefits on the first day of fall cross country practice.
Your workout for today, July 21, 2022, is warm up, 6 times 3 minutes hard, on a soft surface, with a 3 minute jog in between, and then a 20-minute relaxed run, and cooldown. Remember to hydrate.
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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