Since 2006, RunBlogRun has provided daily summer training for cross country. In fact, in our earlier life, as American Track & Field, we started daily training programs online in 1998. This is day 4, week 8 of the 2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program.
Summer Mileage programs are as old as cross country. I remember getting a shirt in the summer of 1973, having run 250 miles for summer mileage at De Smet Jesuit High in Creve Couer, Missouri. Mr. Burns, our football/track and, most importantly, our art teacher, screened the shirts for $3!
We are now in week 8, and we will begin early season training next week. If you have done our daily training, then good for you. You will be able to withstand the first few brutal weeks of training with the great unwashed, I mean those who did not run at all over the summer, and their numbers are legion.
Today’s workout for August 25, 2022, is a hill day.
Warm up, 30 minute good run, and then, 8 times 250 to 300m hills, tough hills, charge them, and jog down, sucking in the air that you did not know was there, and repeat until you dislike me very much, then, thank God you are alive, jog an easy 15-20 minutes and cooldown. Oh, and hydrate.
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