2024 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, September 18, 2024, Week 1, Day 3, Wednesday is a Moderate Day!

The 2024 Cross Country season is here!

Cross country is in full swing across the U.S. for high schoolers.

Elizabeth Leachman and Tamrat Gavenas Capture First-Place Titles at the 45th Foot Locker Cross Country Championships National Finals Presented by HOKA®

2024 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, December 15, 2024, Week 13, Day 7, the FINAL long run of the cross country season

2024 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, December 14, 2024, Week 13, Day 6, the FINAL race of year, Footlocker, presented by HOKA!

560-570,000 high school boys and girls will run cross country across the fifty U.S. states.

Most states have had cross-country races for several weeks now, and many of the new runners to cross country are getting in shape the

hard way, racing into shape.

RunBlogRun just completed its ten-week Summer Program (July-September 15) for high school cross-country runners.

Runners have different goals.

Some want to complete the season.

Some want to run their best times.

Some want to make it to regionals, sectionals or state meets.

2023 FootLocker Nationals, presented by HOKA, photo by Bob Bettencourt

Some dream of their teams making NXN Regionals or the NIKE NXN Championships.

Some have dreams of running in the regionals and making nationals in the 2024 FootLocker (sponsored by HOKA) Cross Country Championships.

Whatever your goal, it is time to train.

RunBlogRun will provide you daily training suggestions.

Our cover page athlete today is Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Jakob is a member of the famous Ingebrigtsen Norwegian family. Jakob won his first medal at the European champs at 17, but had won at cross country for several years. This year, Jakob won gold at 1,500m and 5,000m at the European Champs and gold at the Olympic 5,000m and 4th in Olympic 1,500 meters. Jakob told RunBlogRun at Brussels that he would be planning on European cross country in 2024!

Link to NIKE NXN site: https://nxn.runnerspace.com

Link to FootLocker Cross Country Championships by HOKA: https://footlockercc.com/

Wednesday, Week 1, Day 3, September 18, 2024

Warm-up well,

45-60 minutes of moderate running, on trails, finish with 6x 150 meter stride-outs,

Cooldown well, and remember to hydrate.

Check your shoes and make sure that your training shoes

are ready for 12-18 more weeks of training.

If not, go to a local running store and find one or two pairs of good training shoes.

We will speak about that soon!

Steve Prefontaine in high school, courtesy of Marshfield High

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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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