This is day six, Week Ten of the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program. We will be publish twelve more weeks of training for fall cross country and winter mileage buildup.
The season is now coming to the big time. For high schoolers, state meets FootLocker, NXN, and US Junior champs. For college runners, NCAA regionals, NCAA and US club cross country championships.
Your 18 weeks of running (summer training plus ten weeks now) have made you strong, and your last six weeks of racing, for some ten weeks, will provide you with racing fitness to help you endure the challenges of racing at this time.
Your workout today, Saturday, November 5, 2022, is warm-up, 2-4 stride outs, and a 5k championship race, then, a long cooldown, say 30 minutes, and then, stretch.
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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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