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2024 Fall Cross Country/Recovery Program, December 24, 2024, Week 2, Day 2, it’s Christmas Eve!

Larry Eder by Larry Eder
December 25, 2024
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The 2024 Cross Country season is over! 

This is the second day of easy running in week 2.

Warm-up well,

30 minutes of easy running, or take the day off, up to you.

cool-down well,

Our Christmas gift suggestion! Once a Runner, by John L. Parker, Jr.

In this novel, Quentin Cassidy is an aspiring miler, hoping to move to the big times.

This book, written in the 1970s by miler John Parker, a member of the Florida Track Club has become a

favorite of serious runners for three generations. Well written by someone who knows the scene, this book is a

classic.

Check it out!

Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98250.Once_a_Runner

Once a Runner, by John L. Parker, Jr.

 

Other book suggestions: Self Made Olympian, by Ron Daws, the Lonely Breed, by Ron Clarke, A Clean Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, Best Efforts, by Kenny Moore, Pre! by Tom Jordan.

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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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