2020 RunBlogRun Spring Track & Field Training program, Week 7, Day 1...Monday is a hilly day

I love hills. They can build endurance, strength, speed and confidence. When I coached at community college, my head coach, Joe Mangan, each season could get young athletes in shape in six weeks with hill runs. I have noted here that the 1976 Olympic gold medalist Lasse Viren used hill repeats up to 800m to build his leg speed for the 5000m and 10,000m in Montreal. He fine tuned his speed with fast slow sides of a soccer pitch for 5000m.

Enjoy the hills!

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Monday, Feb. 10, 2020: Hilly run, 50 minutes, include 10 uphill runs of 2 minutes each, cooldown

2020 RunBlogRun Spring Track & Field Training program, Week 7, Day 1

Monday: Hilly run, 50 minutes, include 10 uphill runs of 2 minutes each, cooldown

Tuesday: Easy 45 minutes, 6 x 150 m strideouts

Wednesday: 30 min warmup run, 16 x 200m, Mile pace, 100m jog between each, 4 x 300m, Mile pace, 150m jog between each, 20 minute cooldown

Thursday: Easy 45 minutes, 6 x 150m strideouts

Friday: Fartlek, 50 minutes, 8 x 3 minutes at 3k pace, 3 minutes easy, 2 x 30 seconds hard, 30 seconds easy, 20 minute cooldown

Saturday: Easy 45 minutes, 6 x 150 m strideouts

Sunday: a modest long run, 65-70 minutes

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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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