2025 Fall Cross Nation & Racing Program, Mileage, Week 1, Day 1, September 1, 2025, a simple run on Labor Day!
The final vacation of the summer season is the labor day weekend. In lots of locations throughout the nation, lots of you’ve got begun fall racing!
Our program will probably be constructed round a tempo run with some hills on Tuesday, fartlek on Thursday, race day or repetitions on Saturday, Future on Sunday and simple days on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You possibly can juggle round when you want and in addition think about holding Saturdays a simple day in weeks you aren’t racing! Ask you coach earlier than including one thing to your every day coaching.
Wednesday, warm-up, 45-50 minutes of reasonable to straightforward operating, 6 x 150 meter stride-outs, cool-down nicely.
On this sizzling climate, keep in mind to hydrate. 2-3 liters a day of water, be careful for carbonated drinks, and caffeine (carefully). Don’t take sports activities drinks with caffeine, ginseng and issues that you haven’t mentioned together with your coach and household doctor. These drinks may cause coronary heart points. They don’t seem to be a joke!
Cross Nation experiences of Eliud Kipchoge and Sifan Hassan
Eliud Kipchoge ran three kilometers to high school every day as a schoolboy. His first experiences in operating was with cross nation. As a junior, Eliud gained the Junior cross nation on the World Cross Nation Champs in 2003. Later that 12 months, racing as an 18 12 months previous, Eliud gained his first gold on the monitor within the 5,000m on the Paris World Championships. Watch the You Tube video, he was racing Hicham El Guerrouj, world file holder within the mile, and Olympic champion, and Kenenisa Bekele, 10,000m WC gold. With 200 meters to go, eighteen 12 months previous Eliud was with Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele. Eliud Kipchoge glided by, to take gold within the 5,000m on the age of 18! He would go on to win bronze on the 5,000m in Athens Olympics (2004), and silver in Beijing (2008 Olympics). Eliud additionally took silver in Osaka (2007) World Champs on the 5,000 meters. Eliud would transfer to the marathon in 2013, profitable 15 of his 23 accomplished marathons, together with Rio 2016 Olympics and Tokyo 2021 Olympics plus 4 London marathons and 5 Berlin marathons. In 2016, in London, Eliud instructed this author how necessary cross nation was in his improvement. This coming weekend, Eliud Kipchoge is racing the marathon distance on the TCS Sydney Marathon in Sydney, Australia.
On Sunday, August 31, 2025, Eliud Kipchoge, at age of 40, completed ninth in 2:08.31 within the TCS Sydney Marathon.
Sifan Hassan got here to Holland as a political refugee along with her household in 2008. Sifan ran a half marathon in Eindhoven, her first race in 77:10 for a win. In 2013, Sifan grew to become a Dutch citizen, and gained the European U23 Cross Nation Championships in 2013. In 2015, Sifan Hassan gained the European Athletics Cross Nation senior title.
In 2015, Sifan gained the bronze on the 1,500m in Beijing WC. In 2017, Sifan took the bronze at 5,000m in London 2017. In 2019, Sifan gained gold on the 1,500m and gold on the 10,000m in Doha! In 2023, Sifan collapsed with fifty meters to go within the 10,000m in Budapest 2023, taking silver within the 1,500m and 5,000m. Within the Tokyo Olympics (2021), Sifan gained bronze within the 1,500m, and gold within the 5,000m and 10,000m. In Paris in 2024, Sifan took bronze within the 5,000m and 10,000m and gained a loopy robust Olympic marathon. Sifan has gained the London marathon, and positioned third there as nicely. A flexible athlete, Sifan has European and Dutch information on the 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m, plus world file at one hour run (2020). This weekend, Sifan Hassan will race the marathon on the TCS Sydney Marathon in Sydney, Australia.
Each of those nice athletes started their operating with a strong cross nation background. How do you see your cross nation expertise?
On Sunday, August 31, 2025, Sifan Hassan gained her third World Marathon Masters marathon on the TCS Sydney Marathon in 2:18.33, changing into the primary ladies to interrupt 2 hours, 20 minutes in Australia!
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In his sophomore 12 months of monitor, Steve Prefontaine didn’t make the state meet. He was embarrassed and upset with himself. That summer season, he deliberate, along with his coaches, a ruthless sequence of coaching runs over the summer season. He not solely did mileage, he made himself stronger. He made himself more durable. That fall, Steve Prefontaine was prepared for his junior season of highschool cross nation.
Will. you be prepared? Comply with our every day coaching options, and every day athlete tales and you can be able to race within the fall!
The Nike Pegasus PLUS is a good entry shoe for highschool cross nation. You need to think about it, and be taught extra about it at nike.com. It’s gentle, cushioned, a very good summer season mileage shoe. In the event you want somewhat extra cushioning, attempt the Vomero 18. The Vomero 18 has extra cushioning that the Pegasus PLUS. In the event you like NIKE, I might counsel excessive schoolers use the NIKE Pegasus PLUS for Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I might counsel the Vomero 18 for Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I all the time counsel two pairs of coaching sneakers. Why on Vomero 18? It’s a cushioned shoe that feels nice and is sweet on the roads and trails.
In the event you want a extra cushioned shoe, attempt the Vomero 18 and the Vomero 18 PLUS, for excellent cushioning, a extra subtle experience. Examine them out at your native NIKE retailer or NIKE operating retailer.
Do you need to be a greater cross nation runner than you had been prior to now? Focus and comply with our coaching. It’s all in regards to the consistency.
For Nice Summer season studying! Self Made Olympian by Ron Daws, A Clear Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, Pre! by Tom Jordan, Quicksilver, The Mercurial Emil Zatopek, by Pat Butcher, The Future of Alain Mimoun, by Pat Butcher (a monograph)
Bear in mind, in the future at a time!!!! #SummerMileage, #CrossCountry,
