2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, Week Six, Day 3

This is day three, Week Six of the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program.

Cross country is a primal part of our sport. Most distance runners compete in the cross country around the world, even ones who do not like it. Cross Country builds strength and endurance and overcoming challenges give you pride in your development.

Shalane Flanagan won the NYC Marathon in 2017, the first American woman since 1977 and Miki Gorman. Shalane was a fine cross-country runner and track athlete (3-time Olympian). She was the second American woman to win an Olympic medal at 10,000m with her bronze in 2008 (Lynn Jennings won bronze in 1992).

Today is a recovery run workout. We do three recovery days a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday most weeks, between Tempo, run on Tuesday, Hills on Thursday, Race on Saturday, and Long Run on Sunday.

Your workout today is warm-up easy, 45-60 minutes, moderate pace, six times 150m stride outs, and cool down.

Author

Larry Eder

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 anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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