This is Week Three, Day 6 of the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing program provided by RunBlogRun. We will provide cross-country training suggestions until late December 2022 (21-22 weeks).
Today is September 17, 2022. It is a racing day and the sixth day of week three of our 2022 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing program.
Today is race day across the U.S.A. Cross country is everywhere! Most races for the 560,000 14-18-year-old boys and girls in high school cross country are 2.5 miles to 5k. We ran 1.9 to 2.2 miles when I was in high school (ages ago!).
So, cross country is about getting your primal running thing going!
Your workout today, warm up, 5k XC race, where you get out hard, push the downhills, and kick from about 500m from the finish, increasing each 100m, then, breathe, get in 30-40 minutes of modest running and 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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