This is a fun workout. A little faster than you will race at this next week, but a good session thtat challenges your skills.
This is the pair of spikes worn by Steve Ovett, the gold medalist from 1980 Moscow. This was first Olympic gold medal win by a track athlete in Nike shoes, photo by Nike communications
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Tuesday: warm-up, 6 x 800m, 3k pace, 30 minute run, moderate pace, 6 x 200m stride outs, cooldown
2021 RunBlogRun, week # 2, Fall Cross Country Racing Season, Day 2
Monday: AM for advanced: 30-minute run
Main workout: light run, 45 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.
Tuesday: warm-up, 6 x 800m, 3k pace, 30 minute run, moderate pace, 6 x 200m stride outs, cooldown
Wednesday: AM for advanced: 30-minute run.
Main workout: light run, 45 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m light cooldown.
Thursday: warm-up, Hill repeats, 300 meter long hills, jog back to start, repeat 6 times , then, 30 minute run, moderate pace, go to flat surface, 6 x 200m, 20 minute cooldown
Friday: Advanced athletes, take light AM 30 minute run.
Main workout: light run, 45 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.
Saturday: warm-up, Race 5k, 30 minutes, plus 6 x 250m stride outs, cooldown
Sunday: Long run, 75-90 minutes, at a conversational pace
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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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