2019 HOKA ONE ONE Week 12, Summer Mileage , Training week 12, Day 5, Moms and cross country

I don’t know about you, but my Mom went to many of my cross country and track races. She also helped me buy my first real pair of running shoes. I bought a pair of Onitsuka Tigers for $32. I had not paid for more than $5 previuosly, getting in 400-500 miles a pair. In the real running shoes, I ran 1000 miles in them!

In the summer of 1974, I ran 18 miles a day in the am, to get ready for fall cross country. She signed my workout sheets each day, and when I cut back to 12 miles a day, she was happy as she was worried I was a bit too enthusiastic (I was).

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Mom encouraged my running. She saw many events when I finished last, so it was fun to know she was there when I lead a mile my junior year until the last 50 meters, taking third. I had never finished anything but last until then.

Larry and Mom, 1981

In college, Mom and Dad saw me win my first event, a XC event in Quicksilver Park. It was rugged, but I knew it like the back of my hand. I won by a minute and my folks watched me win, after 350 plus events.

On 20 September 2016, I was there when my Mom, Marilu passed. Dad, my brother Brian and I had been there, doing hospice at home for 4 weeks. I think about her each day and think about the lessons she taught me. She was a sprinter, as was her mother. We laughed alot and I feel her spirit each day. If I could get another hour with her, it would be to laugh and tell her thanks. Today is the third anniversary of her death.

Thank your Mom or Dad today.Let them know that you do know they exist. It is a good thing. And, enjoy your run.

Week 12, Summer mileage, Training week 12, building racing fitness

Monday: 55 – 60 minute park run

Tuesday: 20 minute warm up run, 20 minute tempo run, run this 20 minutes on a track or flat road, at 30 seconds per mile above last weeks 5k race pace, 10 minute jog, then, 6 x 300m, cut downs, with each 300m faster than one before, 20 minute cooldown

Wednesday: 30-45 minute run, relaxed

Thursday: 20 minute warm up, six times 100-150m hill, jog down, 10 minute jog, 30 minute fartlek, 15 times 1 minute, 5k pace, 1 minute easy, 20 minute cooldown

Friday: 30-45 minute minute park run, relaxed

Saturday: warm up, 5k race, similar to league or conference race, jog ten minutes, then 6 x 200m strideouts, cooldown

Sunday: 85-90 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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