Molly Huddle,
Cross country, as someone once said, “is the meeting place of the miler and the marathoner”. Most of the great middle distance runners have spent time on cross country courses.
Cross country builds your strength and endurance. It also gives you a break from the grind of indoor and outdoor track racing.
Train well over the summer, and you should race well in the fall, if you stay healthy. Watch your shoes, sleep well, eat well, and be careful, and you should stay healthy. It’s the little mistakes that catch you.
Saturday: Swim, Bike or walk thirty minutes. Go see a movie.
If you think you need to race, then do a 5k road race or a mile or two mile at an all comers meet.
#summermileage, #crosscountry, #RBRsummermileage
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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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