This is the daily training feature for day six, Week Nine of the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall cross-country Training & Racing Program.
This is race day for the week Nine.
Today is October 29, 2022, Saturday, day six, Week Nine.
You have been training since July and are at the top of your form. The racing day is the key day of the week now.
Cross country is one of the biggest sports in the high school firmament. 560,000 are competing this season,
from little villages to big cities, in all fifty states.
Your workout for today is warm-up, a 5k cross-country race, a cooldown of 30 minutes, and stretching slowly.
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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