2019 HOKA ONE ONE Week 8, Summer Mileage, Training Week 8, Day 2: Get to the hills, it's Tuesday!

Hills change your attitude. I embraced the hills early in my career, and knew I could get up a hill fast, and fly down the back of the hill. I do recall ending a 10,000m brutal cross country event with the last 300m completely uphill. i put my head down and just charged to the top, passing a guy in the final meters and feeling a bit, well, sick.

Hills were our weapon of choice in junior college. 4 weeks of hills and we could get anyone fit. It was fun, and a learning experience.

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Getting into the groove, photo by NAZ Elite

Tuesday, August 20, 2019: 20 minute warm up run, 3 x 11/2 miles, hilly runs, 1/2 mile cooldown, 20 minute cooldown

Week 8, Summer mileage, Training week 8, the grind has begun

Monday: 55 minute park run

Tuesday: 20 minute warm up run, 3 x 11/2 miles, hilly runs, 1/2 mile cooldown, 20 minute cooldown

Wednesday: 55 minute run, relaxed

Thursday: 70 minute fartlek, 7 x 4 minutes, with 3 minute jog, 10 minute warm up, 11 minutes cooldown

Friday: 55 minute park run, relaxed

Saturday: 50 minute easy run

Sunday: 80-85 minute long run

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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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