2020 RunBlogRun Track & Field Training Program (update for Coronavirus pandemic) Week 12, Day 5, a long fartlek...

Friday is a long fartlek. This fartlek is long, with long running in between. This helps build up the strength, and we are doing the recovery so that the immune system is less challenged.

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Friday: Warm up, Fartlek, 60 minutes, 5 minutes at 10k pace, 10 minutes easy, 5 minutes at 8k pace, 10 minutes easy, 5 minutes at 5k pace, 10 minutes easy, 15 minutes moderate pace, then, cooldown

2020 RunBlogRun Spring Track & Field Training program, Buiiding strength, Week 12, day 5

Monday: Holmer Fartlek, warm up, 50 minutes, go out on run in 26 minutes, come back in 24 minutes, gentle coold down

Tuesday: Easy 50 minutes, 6 x 150 m strideouts

Wednesday: Warm up, 60 minute run, with 8 hills of 2-3 minutes up, and same amount recovery, cooldown

Thursday: Easy 30 minutes, 6 x 150m strideouts

Saturday: Easy 30 minutes, 6 x 150 m strideouts

Sunday: Long runs, 75-80 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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