This is day 6, Week five of the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program. We will publish daily training for the 2022 cross-country season, including the week of EastBay FootLocker Nationals.
Today is Saturday, October 1, 22022. It is a race day. This is your schedule today.
Your workout for today is a long warm-up, some stride outs, then race 5k cross country. Get out well, and start picking off athletes, one at a time, focus on the back of their shirts and go by with a strong move. When you begin to see the finish, push a bit, increase the pace every 100 meters or so, and give it a last 30 seconds really hard, see what you can do!
Get a good cool down in after a 30-minute moderate run.
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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