2025 Summer season Mileage Program, July 8, 2025, Week One, Day Two, every day is a brand new step, a hilly run !

That is the second day of the primary week of Summer season Mileage, that is about your future.

Connor Mantz is our featured athlete in the present day. Connor Mantz received the NCAA Cross Nation Division 1 title in 2020, he was the primary American to win the title since 2008 (Galen Rupp). In 2024, Connor received the US Olympic Trials marathon, and positioned eighth within the robust Paris Olympic Marathon. In Boston in April 2025, Connor ran 2:05:08, his private finest. In October, he’ll run the Financial institution of America Chicago Marathon, and he shall be seeking to break the American marathon report of Khalid Khannouchi, set in 2002 at London of two:05.44. Connor is coached by Ed Eyestone, Connors’ faculty coach from BYU. He ran 27:35.2 for 10,000m on the NIKE Pre Basic final weekend.

Connor Mantz completed twelfth within the NIKE Pre Basic 10,000m, July 5, 2025, picture by Brian Eder for RunBlogRun

 

The street to 2025 Cross nation is simply starting 

Monitor & Discipline 2025 season is over.

Time to relaxation up and get in two weeks of mild operating.

In the present day is  July 8 , 2025

Week One, Day two, Summer season Mileage.  

Tuesday, warm-up, 45 minute hilly run, put just a little extra effort into the hills in the present day, cooldown nicely.

Hydrate and stretch.  At all times hydrate.

Some ideas on summer time mileage program. 

Have you ever thought-about cross nation?

Cross Nation is obtainable in over 16,500 excessive colleges and plenty of junior excessive colleges. It usually goes from mid-August to November for many.  To arrange for cross nation, we at RunBlogRun encourage you and your 550,000 closest buddies who just like the 400m to five,000m, think about cross nation!

It’s a good way to remain in form and it builds your health so that you’re prepared for the challenges of cross nation.

What motivated Steve Prefontaine in the summertime between his sophomore and junior yr?

Was it the information that he had not finished his best possible in observe and area? Maybe, he had not taken his dedication as critical as he thought he ought to?

When you haven’t achieved what you anticipated, how do you reply? Are you being referred to as to place in some extra effort? Many people have had these challenges, and Summer season mileage is a superb program to get one self centered.

Take into consideration 5 issues you are able to do higher for fall cross nation, write them on a submit card, and tape it to a spot in your room the place you will notice it a minimum of as soon as a day!

Bear in mind to drink 8 glasses of water, 12 ounces every a day!

When Pre was in highschool, after he did not make his State observe meet as a sophomore, he turned obsessive about each day coaching. These weren’t simply straightforward runs, they have been bone-churning, gut-wrenching efforts centered to make him unbeatable. In his junior yr of cross nation, Pre noticed that his summer time of operating made an enormous distinction. 

Steve Prefontaine, throughout summer time of his sophomore yr in highschool, picture courtesy of Marshfield Excessive Faculty/TFN Information

Do you wish to be a greater cross nation runner than you have been prior to now? Focus and comply with our coaching. It’s all concerning the consistency. 

Different e book ideas embrace Self Made Olympian by Ron Daws, A Clear Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, and Pre! by Tom Jordan.

 

The Nike Pegasus PLUS is a superb entry shoe for highschool cross nation. You must think about it, and study extra about it at nike.com. It’s mild, cushioned, an excellent summer time mileage shoe. In the event you want just a little extra cushioning, strive the Vomero 18.

NIKE Pegasus PLUS, picture courtesy of NIKE operating

  • Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement within the sport of athletics. Larry has skilled the game as an athlete, coach, journal writer, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was revealed in RW in 1983. Larry has revealed a number of magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. model of Spikes journal. He presently manages the content material and advertising growth of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his each day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I like touring to far-off meets, writing concerning the sport I like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, essentially the most of something I’ve ever finished, besides, perhaps operating itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he really enjoys. Theme tune: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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