I loved this time of the season. During the winter, I would either race indoors or outdoors at all comers. I either ran 3000 meters or 2 miles. I loved the simplicity of the race, eight laps on a 400 meter track, or 22 laps on a short 160 meter track. I liked to race often, and this distance helped sharpen me for the spring races that mattered. It was also short enough that it did not beat me up.
These shoes are made for racing, photo by PhotoRun.net
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Saturday, January 20, 2018: warm up, race 1k, mile or 800 meters, cooldown, if you do not race, then, two miles on track,
sprint straights, jog turns, cooldown
Week 1, Beginning of track season
Monday: warm up, 4-5 miles easy, 4 times 150 meters stride outs, cooldown
Tuesday: warm up, 50 minute fartlek, ten times 2 minutes hard, 2 minutes easy, five times, one minute hard, one minute easy,
cooldown.
Wednesday: warm up, Easy 55-60 minutes, cooldown, on soft ground
Thursday: warm up, 50 minute fartlek, five times five minutes hard, five 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, if you do not race, then, two miles on track,
sprint straights, jog turns, cooldown
Sunday: Relaxed Long run, 65-70 minutes with friends, at pace you can talk. Long runs are all about the socializing and building endurance.
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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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