2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program, Week 1, Day 3

Today is day 3 of week one of the RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program. We will take 8 weeks to get you ready for the fall cross country season.

Today we will write about Sam Prakel.

How the Kinney National High School Cross-Country National Championships Began (1979), by Walt Murphy from This Day in Track & Field

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2025 Fall Cross Country & Racing Season, December 12, 2025, Week 15, Day 5, Friday is an easy day!

Sam Prakel took the lead with just a lap to go and tried to break the field in the US Trials on June 25, 2022. He pushed terribly hard for 350 meters, and was passed in the last fifty meters. He gave it all he could in that race, hoping to finish in the top 3, he fell back to eighth. This is how he responded on his FB site to his race:

“Ran in my 5th consecutive US 1500m final. Gave it my all, but it wasn’t my day as I fell short of my goal of top 3 and got 8th. Appreciate all the love and support, I’ll be back stronger next year.”

The stress in running in a major championship can not be underestimated. The following week, Sam Prakel ran a 3:51 mile in Yakima, Washington. Sam Prakel has what it takes.

Our approach is to build mileage plus tempo runs, hill runs, and long runs.

Today’s workout, on Tuesday, July 6, 2020: warm up, 40 minute easy run on trails, cooldown.

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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