Brooks presents: 2022 RunBlogRun Spring Middle Distance Daily Track Training (800m-5000m), Week 2, Day 3

Each Wednesday, all through the spring season, we will feature a clip from Coach Danny Mackey. Danny coaches the Brooks Beasts TC. He is the founding coach of this Brooks sponsored team. Danny coaches athletes from 800m to 5000m (he also coached the 600m indoor AR holder as well. Danny is a running & track geek. He gets it. If you speak with Danny, you will find that he thinks about all of the things that need to be done to make a complete athlete, as well as all of the things needed to do for you to excel at your primary event.

We are lucky to have Danny Mackey working with us this spring. I guarantee that you will find new concepts and understand more of what you are doing than you ever have before. Special thanks to Brooksrunning.com (check their site out when you get the chance).

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Elizabeth Leachman and Tamrat Gavenas Capture First-Place Titles at the 45th Foot Locker Cross Country Championships National Finals Presented by HOKA®

Todays workout:

Wednesday: warm up, 30-45 minutes, moderate running, 2 x 100m stride outs, cooldown

Coach Danny Mackey, Brooks Beasts TC, photo courtesy of Brooks running

Today’s clip from Coach Danny Mackey: A Typical training Day with the Brooks Beasts TC : https://bit.ly/3DhrgAx

To learn more about Danny Mackey, please check out: https://www.runblogrun.com/2020/07/runblogrun-presents-socialing-the-distance-with-larry-eder-featuring-coach-danny-mackey-of-the-brook.html

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Brooks presents: 2022 RunBlogRun Spring Middle Distance Daily Track Training (800m-5000m), Week 2, Day 3

Monday: warm up, 30-45 minutes moderate running, 2 x 100m stride outs, cool down

Tuesday: 45 minutes running on trails, warm up and cooldown

Wednesday: warm up, 30-45 minutes, moderate running, 2 x 100m stride outs, cooldown

Thursday: warm up, warm up, 45 minute fartlek, 10 minutes running, then 10 x 1 minute hard, 1 minute easy, 15 minutes running, then cooldown

Friday: warm up, 30-45 minutes moderate running, 4 x100m stride outs, cooldown

Saturday: warm up, All comers meet, indoor meet, 800m if you are 3-5k, 3k if you are 800m person, 3k if you are 1,500m person, cooldown

Sunday: 55-60 minutes moderate pace, on trails

Author

Dave Hunter
Dave Hunter is an award-winning journalist who is a U.S. Correspondent for Track & Field News. He also writes a weekly column and serves as Senior Writer for www.RunBlogRun.com, and covers championship track & field competition domestically and in such global capitals as Moscow, Birmingham, Zurich, Brussels, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, Zagreb, Ostrava, and Doha. Hunter frequently serves as the arena or stadium announcer for championship track & field gatherings, including the Ivy League, the Big East, the Mid-American Conference, the NAIA, the Big Ten, and the Millrose Games. Hunter has undertaken foreign and domestic broadcast assignments. He ran his marathon P.R. 2:31:40 on the Boston Marathon course back in the Paleozoic Era. To find out more about Dave, visit his website: www.trackandfieldhunter.com He can be reached at: dave@trackandfieldhunter.com
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