2019 HOKA ONE ONE Spring Track & Field Training Week 10, Day 4: Thursday is your long day on the track!

The long day on the track is there to build you up and prepare you for the season. Take it one part at a time. You can do it. The mental strength is key as well! During the long season, mental strength is the key to success.

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Thursday, March 14, 2019-warm up, 6 x 400m, mile pace, 100m jog, 20 minute run, 6 x 300m, 100m jog, 800m pace, 20 minute run, 6 x 200m, cutdowns, 600m pace, 20 minute run, 4 x 150m gentle stride outs, cooldown

And most of all, remember that, when you are looking for running shoes, check out www.hokaoneone.com and check out the results of their fall racing contest, www.hokaoneonepostalnationals.com.

Time for spikes, photo by Mike Deering/The Shoe Addicts

Week 10, 2019 Track buildup- stride outs in spikes, flats all week, spikes racing

Monday-warm up, 50 minutes Fartlek, 2.5 minutes hard, 2.5 minutes easy, times 10, 4x150m strideouts, core training, cool down

Tuesday-warm up, 20 minute temp run, run at 30 second per mile above your 5k current race pace, 4 times 600m, 800m pace, 300m jog, 4 x150m stride outs, , cooldown

Wednesday-warm up, 50 minute run, 8 x 150m, core training, cooldown

Thursday-warm up, 6 x 400m, mile pace, 100m jog, 20 minute run, 6 x 300m, 100m jog, 800m pace, 20 minute run, 6 x 200m, cutdowns, 600m pace, 20 minute run, 4 x 150m gentle stride outs, cooldown

Friday-warm up, 50 minute run, 8 x 150m, core training, cooldown

Saturday-warm up, Racing, for milers, 800/3000m, for 3000m/5000m, mile, 4x400m, cooldown

Sunday-warm up, 75 minutes, cooldown

Author

Larry Eder
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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