The 2024 Cross Nation season is right here!
The 2024 Cross Nation season is attending to the excessive season!
560-570,000 highschool girls and boys will run cross nation throughout the fifty U.S. states in 2024.
(Cross-country can be huge in Europe, Asia, and Africa!)
Cross Nation has been round for a number of hundred years, beginning within the 1830s-1840s in England with hounds and harrier runs. A few of these runs
have been seven to 9 miles, with a pacesetter dropping items of paper or flags displaying the next runners the place to go.
The massive deal is, as now, runners speaking about their races afterward!
In US excessive faculties, most states now run 3 miles or 5k.
Most states have had cross-country races for a number of weeks now, and lots of the new runners to cross-country are getting in form for the
laborious manner, racing into form.
JSerra Excessive College, San Juan Capistrano, CA
March 4, 2023, photograph by Kevin Morris
RunBlogRun simply accomplished its ten-week Summer season Program (July-September 15) for highschool cross-country runners.
Runners have completely different targets.
Some need to full the season.
Most need to run their greatest occasions.
Some need to make it to regionals, sectionals, or state meets.
Some dream of their groups making NXN Regionals or the NIKE NXN Championships.
Some dream of working within the regionals and making nationals within the 2024 FootLocker (sponsored by HOKA) Cross Nation Championships.
No matter your purpose, it’s time to practice.
RunBlogRun will present you every day coaching recommendations, to be your easiest this season!
Hyperlink to NIKE NXN website: https://nxn.runnerspace.com
Hyperlink to FootLocker Cross Nation Championships by HOKA: https://footlockercc.com/
Wednesday, Week 4, Day 2, October 8, 2024
Heat-up properly,
30 minute run, reasonable to laborious, 8 x 400m hill expenses, jog 400m between then, half-hour reasonable to simple,
Cooldown properly, and bear in mind to hydrate.
Verify your footwear and be sure that your coaching footwear
are prepared for 12-18 extra weeks of coaching.
If not, go to a neighborhood working retailer and discover one or two pairs of fine coaching footwear.
We are going to discuss that quickly!
Cross Champs,
photograph by Kevin Morris
