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2024 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, December 13, 2024, Week 13, Day 5, Friday is an easy day!

2024 Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, December 5, 2024, Week 12, Day 4, Thursday is a tempo day !

The 2024 Cross Country season is almost over! 

You are now at the tough part of the season. Everyone is fit; the difference is racing fitness.

Let me explain.

Those who can make the right move, one after another, and have something at the end of the race, those athletes will be successful.

The California State meet, the last of the season, is over. Four of four FootLocker Regionals are over!

We have the 45th FootLocker XC tomorrow, and the USATF Club Championships as well!

Cross country is a real key to developing as a great distance runner!

Jack Graffeo takes the NorthEast Regional of the 2024 FootLocker Cross Country Champs, presented by HOKA, photo by Victah Sailer /PhotoRun for FootLocker

Most high schoolers competing in both NXN FootLocker have one more week .

The Midwest, South East, and East regionals for FootLocker were held on November 30, 2024.

The NXN Regionals are all done; NXN Nationals were held on December 7. European champs were December 8.

West FootLocker regionals were held  December 7, 2024, and FL Nationals are December 14, 2024. 80 athletes will compete

in San Diego, CA.

You are fit!

You will keep it moderate and have a few weeks until the big stuff!

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

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

 Week 13, Day 5, Friday, December 13 , 2024 

Warm-up well,

45 minutes of easy running, some stride outs,

cool-down well,

Check your shoes and make sure that your training shoes

are ready for the final weeks of training. (Most shoes make it 8-12 weeks of training)

If not, go to a local running store and find one or two good training shoes.

We will speak about that soon!

Sifan Hassan, 2024 WA Athlete of Year, photo by Global Sports Communication

  • 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…

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