This is the time of the season that the combination of good weather, strong fitness and a lot of runners wanting to run fast come together. Good luck in your racing today!
A clear pair of track spikes, photo by Mike Deering for The Shoe Addicts
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Saturday, April 21, 2018 : warm up, race your primary distance, and run a 4×400 meter, cooldown
Week 14, into racing season
Tuesday: warm up, 8 x 400 meters, 200m jog, 400 meters at 800m race pace, 4 x 200 meters, 200 meter jog, 200 meters at 400m race pace, cooldown
Wednesday: warm up, Easy 55-60 minutes, cooldown, on soft ground, 4 x 150 meter stride outs
Thursday: warm up, two mile run, sprint straights, jog turns, 4 x 600 meters, jog 400 meters in between, at mile pace, 4 x 150m stride outs, cooldown
Friday: warm up, 4 -5 miles easy, 4 times 150 meters stride outs, cooldown
Saturday: warm up, race your primary distance, and run a 4×400 meter, cooldown
Sunday: Relaxed Long run, 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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