2019 HOKA ONE ONE Spring Track & Field Training Week 20, Day ONE: Begin your week

The track season is coming to an end for most of the 1.4 million high school athletes in track & field. State meets began the first weekend in May with some of the Southern states, and ends with California, normally the first weekend of June.

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What happens to the seniors? In NCAA and JUCO track, the total is about 200,000 on those teams, which means that one out of 7 high schoolers competes in collegiate athletics. As a former JC coach, I will tell you that, you should try out for your JC team. As a former D1 NCAA coach, and a walk on, I will tell you to do the same in 4 year schools. I was given a scholarship, one of the first at my university, Santa Clara, in my senior year.

In high school, I trained way too hard. In college, I broke my year into 2 twenty-six time periods, withr 2 weeks off at end of each season. During the final six weeks of each season, I would do extreme hard easy, where I had a speed day, then a 30 minute run, and only long run was unchanged. In both seasons, I ran six PBs in row, week after week.

I try and share successes and failures. I did not do well in League in high school, and that inspired me to see what I could do in college.

Like life, athletics is not a straight line to success. Enjoy!

Monday, May 20, 2019-warm up, 45 minutes moderate run, back to the track, 6 x150m stride outs, core work, cooldown

And most of all, remember that, when you are looking for running shoes, check out www.hokaoneone.com.

Track spikes, ready to go! photo by Mike Deering/The Shoe Addicts

Week 20, 2019 Track buildup-time to get serious, racing is almost here

Monday-warm up, 45 minutes moderate run, back to the track, 6 x150m stride outs, core work, cooldown

Tuesday-warm up, 4 x 800m, at mile pace, 400 jog in between, 6x 150m, good effort, cool down

Wednesday-warm up, 45 minute run, 6 x 150m, core training, cooldown

Thursday-warm up, 4 x 400m, at 800m pace, 4x200m cut downs, cool down

Friday-warm up, 45 minute run, 6 x 150m, core training, cooldown

Saturday-warm up, Prime distance (1 race), cooldown

Sunday-warm up, 75-80 minutes, cooldown

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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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