WEEK 9: Here Comes the Cross Country Season!
High Schoolers, you’ll start school within a couple of weeks, while college runners have a month to go. HS juniors and seniors can handle the 2 or 3 easy morning runs. College runners, depending on your standards, should be able to handle 3 morning runs a week.
Molly Huddle, 3,000 meters, London DL,
photo by PhotoRun.net
Morning runs for seniors in high school: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 30 minutes.
Morning runs for college athletes, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 35-40 minutes.
Monday: Warm up; 45-50 minutes easy running; 8×150 yards relaxed strideouts on grass, jogging back to the start after each, no rest between; cool down.
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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