This is the most recent NIKE cross-country newsletter, the Journey to Compete. Sent to high school and college track coaches for FREE (sign up at [email protected] with your email address and NIKE XC in subject line), the NIKE Journey to Compete is a collaboration between NIKE running and RunBlogRun. The goal is assist athletes and their coaches in modern training, inspire the athletes and coaches and educate tham about the proud history of sport, while providing up to date information on NIKE athletes, NIKE running shoes and NIKE apparel.
Cole Hocker, USATF Champs, photo by Islam Dhagistani,
20. The Journey to Compete, February 19, 2026, Issue # 20, The NIKE Athletics newsletter (Cross-Country and Indoor Track & Field): World records at Women’s 800m, Men’s U20 800m and American record for the short track Mile for men!
Keely Hodgkinson Just Did It! photo by Getty for UK athletics
Here’s the link for Issue 20 of #TheJourneytoCompete, a collaboration between NIKE and RunBlogRun!
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.
