XC Training System
800m Training: Pre-race Day

📌 KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Three goals: Neuromuscularly ready, mentally ready, no carry-over fatigue
  • Start with Jeff BoelĂ©'s dynamic warm-up (13 min, all three planes of motion)
  • 5-10 min easy run → skipping/sprint drills → spike up
  •  Key workout: 3 x 150m In-n-Outs (50m build, 50m fast at 92-96%, 50m run out)
  • Then 2 x 200m at race pace: First from standing start, second with 20m run-in
  • Cues: "Up tall" and "fast and relaxed" — never give more tha...
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How to Warm-up Between Races

📌 KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • After the first race, take 10–15 minutes to feel mostly normal, then do a quick 6-exercise mobility routine (iron cross, low whips, groiners, reach under/up, cat-cow, side bends) before hydrating and refueling.
  • Use an adjusted Jeff Boele warm-up for the second race: 20m of dynamic drills, wall/fence exercises (leg swings, hurdle trail leg, eagles), ground exercises, then A-march and A-skip sequences.
  • Skip B-march and B-skip w...
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