2020 RunBlogRun Track & Field Training Program (update for Coronavirus pandemic), Week 15, Day 5, some fun fartlek...

This is the second month of Spring, in the time of the coronavirus. This will be a lasting memory in your lives. Stay calm. When you feel anxious, take five, long, deep cleansing breaths through your mouth. Hold it, counting One Mississippi, two Mississipi, up to five, then, release. Then, five deep breaths through your nose, holrd it, five count, and release, it will help.

Do workout on own. Vary runs and shoes. If you need a new pair of shoes, order from local running store on line. Support the local economy.

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Friday, April 10, 2020: Warm up, fun fartlek, 60 minutes, 3 minutes good effort, 3 minutes easy, times 10, cooldown.

2020 RunBlogRun Spring Track & Field Training program, Buiiding strength, Week 15, day 5

Monday: Holmer Fartlek, warm up, go to a track, run 3 miles, jog turns, sprint straights OR, warm up, 30 minute run, stride 30 seconds, jog 90 seconds, times 15, cooldown

Tuesday: Easy 50 minutes, 6 x 150 m strideouts

Wednesday: Warm up, 60 minute run, with 8-9 hills of 2-3 minutes up, and same amount recovery, cooldown

Thursday: Easy 50 minutes, 6 x 150m strideouts

Friday: Warm up, fun fartlek, 60 minutes, 3 minutes good effort, 3 minutes easy, times 10, cooldown.

Saturday: Easy 30 minutes, 6 x 150 m strideouts

Sunday: Long runs, 85-90 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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