As you return to the first week of school in the new year, take deep breaths and enjoy the different parts of the day. Find different places to run each day. I used to love doing my easy runs around a soccer pitch. Another day, I ran around the fields on a junior high, as the energy and varied surfaces kept me awake.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018: warm up, Easy 4-6 miles, cooldown
Stretching for your daily run, photo by Justin Britton
Week 4, last week of recovery, starting to get back to the track
Monday: warm up, 4-5 miles easy, 4 times 150 meters stride outs, cooldown
Tuesday: warm up, Two miles on track, sprint straights, jog turns, cooldown
Wednesday: warm up, Easy 4-6 miles, cooldown
Thursday: warm up, 40 minute fartlek workout, 10 times 2 minutes at 5k race pace, 2 minutes easy, cooldown
Friday: warm up, 4 -5 miles easy, 4 times 150 meters stride outs, cooldown
Saturday: warm up, race 1k, mile or 800 meters, cooldown
Sunday: Relaxed Long run 70 minutes.
Author
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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