This is Week 3, Day six of the 2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program. Give us five more weeks, and our 8-week program will have you ready for Fall Cross Country!
The Women’s 5000-meter final is tonight and it will be tough! Three Americans are in the final, along with Letensebet Gidey, gold medalist, 10,000m, Gudaf Tsegay, silver medalist, 1,500 meters, and Sifan Hassan, who took gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m in Tokyo Olympics, plus bronze in the 1,500m, but is not as fit as last summer, it seems. How will they do over 12.5 laps? You will just have to wait and see!
Today’s workout, for July 23, 2022, Saturday is a warm-up, then 2 miles to 5k race, on roads or track, and then a good cooldown. If you do not do a race, then go to a park and do three five-minute hard runs, at a 5k pace, with a 5-minute jog in between, and warm-up and cooldown.