Today’s main focus is three times a 1000 meters, with stride outs following. It will be a long day, but a good workout for this time of the season.
Time to run fast, photo by Mike Deering for The Shoe Addicts, Sacramento 2017 USA Outdoor Championships
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Thursday, April 26, 2018, : warm up, 3 x 1000 meters, pace at 3200 meter pace, 30 minute run, 8 x 150 meter strideouts, cooldown,
Week 15, into racing season
Tuesday: warm up, 6 x 800 meters, 400 meter jog, 800 meters at current 3200 mile pace, 30 minute run, cooldown
Wednesday: warm up, Easy 55-60 minutes, cooldown, on soft ground, 4 x 150 meter stride outs
Thursday: warm up, 3 x 1000 meters, pace at 3200 meter pace, 30 minute run, 8 x 160 meter strideouts, cooldown,
Friday: warm up, 4 -5 miles easy, 4 times 150 meters stride outs, cooldown
Saturday: warm up, race your primary distance. If no race, a time trial, 4 times 400 meter, at current mile pace, with 15 second break in between, add 4 times 400 meters up, and you get what you can run your mile at this very day, 30 minute 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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