by Larry EderThe nature of training is such that, when one puts in challenging sessions and then easy sessions. Mortal engines can be developed and challenged, but time to recover is needed. When one is at top fitness, one must also watch health diligently. In this season, in this time of the pandemic, one must watch and stay safe.
2020 World Championships Half Marathon, Gdynia, Oct 17, 2020, photo by Dan Vernon / World Athletics
Monday, 19 October 2020: warm-up, an easy 50 minutes, 6 x 150 m stride outs, cooldown
2020 RunBlogRun Fall Track & Field Training program, in the time of the coronavirus, Week 43, day 1
Monday: warm-up, an easy 50 minutes, 6 x 150 m stride outs, cooldown
Tuesday: warm-up, 15 minutes easy, tempo run, 20 minutes, at pace 30 seconds above your ave mile pace for 5k now. So, if you ran 18 minutes for 5k, you can run 20 minutes at 6:20 mile pace, this is not to exhaust you, but to build you, 4x300m cutdowns, cooldown
Wednesday: warm-up, an easy 45 minutes, 6 x 150 m stride outs, cooldown
Thursday: warm-up, 30-minute hilly run, 6 x 200m hill, jog 200 btw each hill, cool down
Friday: warm-up, an easy 45 minutes, 6 x 150 m stride outs, cooldown
Saturday: warm-up, Fartlek: 10 x 1 minute, 5 k pace, 2 minutes easy, then 10 x 1 minute, 10k pace, 30 minutes cool down
Sunday: Long run, 75-90 minutes
