This is Week Two, Day 4 of the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing program provided by RunBlogRun. We will provide cross-country training suggestions until late December 2022.
Today is September 8, 2022. It is a challenging day and the fourth day of week two of our Fall Cross Country program.
Eilish McColgan is our photo athlete for the day. Eilish took gold at the 10,000m and silver at the 5,000m in the Commonwealth Games. Eilish took silver at 10,000m and bronze at 5000m in the European Champs. She ran five tough 10,000m races in three months! She just finished 2022 with a fine half marathon at The Big Half.
Today’s workout is warm-up, 30-minute run, good pace, then, 6-8 times 250-meter hill, run up hard, jog down easy, 15 minutes of easy running, six times 150-meter stride-outs, 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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