This is Saturday, September 23, 2023.
All across North America, high school cross-country races, big and small, are being held. I recall running the frosh races in Metro Saint Louis in 1972 and watching DeSmet Varsity star Paul Heck blasting a 9:19 on a 1.9 mile course (we did 2 miles mostly back then), on what I thought was the McCleur Invite, but I could be wrong.
Wherever. you race today, get out hard, find a good position, and then take one person at a time, as you get close to the finish (500 meters), start to increase your pace and go all out with 150m to go and do not stop until you get into the chute!
Cooldown well, hydrate well. Enjoy the camaraderie of a race well run.
This is cross country; 600,000 14-18-year-olds are racing across the US today!
Your workout today: warm-up, 6 x 150m stride outs, race, then 30 minutes of easy running and stretch well.
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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