2015 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Challenge, Week 26, Day Seven, Tapering for Champs, by Larry Eder

Casey Clinger, photo courtesy of Nike communications

This is the final day of the season. After twenty-six weeks of training, after league, conference, state, NCAA regionals, NCAAs, USATF JO regionals, FootLocker regionals and NXN regionals, and NXN, this is the last weekend of cross country in North America.

KIPLIMO, CHEBET WIN SENIOR TITLES AT WORLD ATHLETICS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS

2023 USATF INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS AND WORLD ATHLETICS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS BATHURST23 PRESENTED THIS WEEK ACROSS NBC AND PEACOCK

A look at Kenya’s team to World Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia

Fun to see that the European Champs are also being held this weekend.

All the work is done. Today, you are like a painter finishing a painting. The final strokes, the final brushes of paint are your race today. How do you run a performance that is satisfying and does not haunt you for a year?

Get out hard, find a position and start taking out those in front of you. Do not panic. And when you can see the finish, start to accelerate and give it your all!

Best wishes and thanks for following our workouts for the past twenty-six weeks!

Week 26, Day Seven, December 12, 2015

Warm up well, do some stride outs, and run your race.

Good Luck!

Send us pictures from your races to runblogrun@gmail.com

Special thanks to Brian Eder, my brother, for managing RunBlogRun.com. Special thanks to photographers, Victah Sailer, Kevin Morris, Nike communications and adidas communications for their support. Special thanks to NXN, FootLocker XC for their support. And most of all, thanks to the 16,000 cross country coaches and 550,000 high school boys and girls and 50,000 college athletes who run cross country who give our sport honor by running each and every day.

This season was in honor of the late James Dunaway, who encouraged me to prepare cross country training programs, and edited AT&F for over a decade. .

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 50-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." Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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