#TheJourneytoCompete, Issue 25, March 27, 2026, Celebrating the 2026 Indoor season!

Our Newsletter, #TheJourneytoCompete, is a collaboration between NIKE and RunBlogRun. The idea is to utilize the assets of NIKE running, from athletes, coaches, footwear, and apparel, to help coaches train their athletes wiser and to help athletes train smarter and stay healthy!

The lead pack! NXN Girls Championships race, December 6, 2025, NXN, photo by Brian Eder @cameraathletica for RunBlogRun

RunBlogRun collaborated with NIKE, using NIKE coaches, NIKE athletes, and NIKE product team to build twenty-five newsletters, through high school cross country season, culminating with the end of season events: NIKE Cross Nationals, USATF XC and World XC (Sept-Jan), and then, indoor season, from Jan-March, including Nike Indoor Nationals, USATF Indoors and World Indoors.

The link below is to our final winter issue, as we will take a pause to evaluate and plan for the Outdoor season of 2026! See you then.

NIKE Indoor Nationals, March 12-15, 2026, artwork by NIKE running

Please note that in Issue 25 of #TheJourneytoCompete, we link all back issues, 1-24, with interviews, video, stories, and photos! Enjoy! Just click on Issue 25!

Link to issue 25, and all back issues of #TheJourneytoCompete: https://runningnetwork.com/index.php/features/471-thejourneytocompete-your-nike-cross-country-track-field-newsletter-issue-25-march-27-2026

Thanks to Erin Byrnes, Cameron Yates, Brett Holts and Cheyenne Wood.

Thanks to Mike Deering for podcasts, Brian Eder for Photography, and the NSAF Digital coverage team for managing Technology and for their help, and the NXN team for photos and support!

Special thanks to Kathy Camara for editing and support on the weekly newsletter, #TheJourneytoCompete, and Chuck Bartlett for web management of RunningNetwork sites.

Coach Paul Limmer with Marcelo Mantecon. Paul is long time NSAF, and Marcelo won 4/4 at the 2026 NIN, photo by Larry Eder /RunBlogRun

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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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