This is Monday, September 11, 2023.
I had my first cross-country race fifty-one years ago today.
Our home course was the 1-mile loop around DeSmet Jesuit High School. That Day, Paul Heck led the varsity with a 10:10 time for the two-mile course.
As a freshman, somehow, I got around the course in 18:09 for two miles, losing a shoe in the last 100 yards.
I ran just over 300 races before I won my first one, during my senior year in college, at Santa Clara University, on the old Almaden Quicksilver course, 5.8 miles, I ran in 33:20.
Cross country has been a fun part of my life and I hope you enjoy this season, no matter if it is your first of fiftieth.
Your workout today:
Warm-up, 45-55 minutes easy to moderate running, 6 x 150m stride outs, cooldown.
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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