After 21 weeks of training, you are fit, focused and ready to roll. Warm up well, take your time, and focus on the race. Watch the finish, bide your time, and make the move you won’t regret.
CeAira Brown takes the 800m, Martinez Classic, June 7, 2018, photo by Kevin Morris
Saturday: Warm up, Race, cooldown
Week 21, the championship weeks
Monday: warm up, 45 minutes, 6 times 150 meter stride outs, cooldown
Tuesday: warm up, 4 times 400 meters, 400 meter walk in between, 400 meters at 800m race speed, 4 x 150 meter stride outs, cooldown.
Wednesday: warm up, 45-50 minutes, easy, cooldown
Thursday: warm up, 4×200 meters, 200 meter walk, 200m at current 800 meter race speed, cooldown
Friday, warm up: 30 minute run, cooldown
Saturday: Warm up, Race, cooldown
Sunday: 70 minute run, relaxed
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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