The 2024 Cross Country season is here!
Thursday is a hill day!
Most of the 560,000 high school boys and girls in cross country are competing in high school cross country in 2024!
Thursday is a hill day! Hills are our secret sauce.
Cross Champs, 2023 race, photo by Kevin Morris
Cross country is a real key to developing as a great distance runner!
Link to NIKE NXN site: https://nxn.runnerspace.com
Link to FootLocker Cross Country Championships by HOKA: https://footlockercc.com/
Wednesday, Week 6, Day 4, October 24, 2024
Warm-up well,
60 minute fartlek, 20 x 1 minute hard, one minute easy, ten minutes moderate,
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. (Most shoes make it 12-16 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!
Frank Shorter won 4 AAU cross country titles, was on several US World Cross Country teams and won two Olympic medals, gold and silver in the Marathon (1972 and 1976). Frank Shorter set ARs from 2 miles indoor to the Marathon. He was a cross country animal.
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