2021 RunBlogRun, week # 7, Summer mileage, day 5

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Friday: light run, 40 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.

2021 RunBlogRun, week # 7, Summer mileage, day 5

Monday: light run, 40 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.

Tuesday: warm-up, relaxed 55-65 minute run in the hills, enjoy the day, cooldown.

Wednesday: light run, 40 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m light cooldown.

Thursday: warm-up, run in the hills, get in 40 minutes in your 65 minute run of hill running, cooldown.

Friday: light run, 40 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.

Saturday: warm-up, 60 minutes run in a park, moderate pace, with ten-minute hilly runs during the run, cooldown

Sunday: Long run, 65-75 minutes, at a conversational pace

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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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