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2024 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, September 22, 2024, Week 1, Day Seven, Are you ready for your Sunday long run?

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The 2024 Cross Country season is here! 

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

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

(Cross-country is huge in Europe, Asia, and Africa as well!)

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.

Most want to run their best times.

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

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.

The 2021 SPAR European Athletics Cross Country Championships, 12/12/21, Senior Men’s race, photo courtesy of European Athletics (via @twitter)

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

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

Sunday, Week 1, Day , September 22, 2024

Warm-up well,

Your Sunday long run is 75-85 minutes, moderate pace, on road, trail, with some good hill climbs!

Run with your friends.

Enjoy nature!

Watch the hawks,

rabbits, deer,

turkey buzzards (we would see them circling above us),

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!

BELGRADE, SERBIA – MARCH 30: Berehanu Tsegu of Ethiopia, Jacob Kiplimo, Leonard Chemutai and Joshua Chptegei of Uganda, Samwel Chebolei Masai and Benson Kiplangat of Kenya cempetes in the Men’s Senior race during the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Belgrade 2024 on March 30, 2024 in Belgrade, Serbia.
(Photo by © Adam Nurkiewicz for World Athletics

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    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…

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