2020 RunBlogRun Fall Track & Field Training program, in the time of the coronavirus, Week 43, day 1

The 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.

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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

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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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