2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, Week One, Day 5

RunBlogRun provides daily cross-country training to 16,000 high school coaches and 550,000 high school boys and girls. The program is called the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program. RunBlogRun began this in 2006, and we have published cross country training online since 1998 at American Track & Field. This is week one, day 5.

Friday is a recovery day. Recovery days are key to your development. Your body needs easy days to get benefit from the hard days when you take recovery days, hydrate, rest, and eat well. You are a mortal engine.

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So, our photo today is of Norway’s Karsten Warholm. Karsten is the two-time World Champion at the 400m hurdles, two-time European Outdoor Champ at 400m hurdles, and Olympic champion at 400m hurdles, and oh, yes, this crazy Viking also owns the world record at 400m hurdles at 45.94!

Karsten was injured in June, and he battled back, making the Eugene WC final but finishing the event. A month later, Karsten was back, and defended his 400m hurdle title at the Europeans in 47.12. Karsten has guts, and we all can learn from that.

Your workout today is warm-up, 45-50 minutes of relaxed running, 6 x 150-meter stride outs, cooldown, and hydrate.

Author

Larry Eder
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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