2021 RunBlogRun, week # 1, Summer mileage, day 3

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I have no super sauces, no super workouts, no super answers, and no quick ways to be a great athlete.

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I have studied athletes, great and not so great for 45 years. I have been fortunate to meet some of the finest coaches in the world.

Two things. Well, three actually.

1. Coaches should never lie to athletes. If you look respect of athletes, the party is over.

2. No athlete gets good overnight. To find your best, you will find 12-15 years of hard work in front of you. You will get hurt. You will get discouraged. You will call your parents in agony, asking why you are still running? The next week, you might crush it.

3. You will also have glorious runs. You will run personal bests that make it all worth it. You and your team will do something spectacular. Yes, bad days and good days.

Today is an easy day. I practice easy day, hard day, and know that the body needs the easy days to really get fit.

Listen to your body.

Wednesday: light run, 30 minutes easy pace, stretch, 2 x 150 m light cooldown.

2021 RunBlogRun, week # 1, Summer mileage, day 3

Monday: light run, 30 minutes easy pace, stretch, 2 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.

Tuesday: warm-up, relaxed 45-50 minute run in the hills, enjoy the day, cooldown.

Wednesday: light run, 30 minutes easy pace, stretch, 2 x 150 m light cooldown.

Thursday: warm-up, run in the hills, get in 30 minutes in your 50 minute run of hill running, cooldown

Friday: light run, 30 minutes easy pace, stretch, 2 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.

Saturday: warm-up, 50 minute run in a park, moderate pace, cooldown

Sunday: Long run, 55-60 minutes, at a conversational pace

Author

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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