2022 RunBlogRun, Recovery Week 3, Day 2 (June 28, 2022)

This is a picture of Hillary Bor and Evan Jager. Hillary Bor won the USATF Steeplechase on Saturday, June 25, 2022 and Evan Jager placed second.

Evan Jager is the American record holder at the steeplechase, in 8:00.45, I was there, watching that brilliant race in 2015 at the AREVA Meeting de Paris. Over the final barrier, Evan fell, got up and ran through the finish setting the AR! I hollered a four-letter word as I watched him fall, hoping that he could get up.

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Evan competed in the 2012 Olympics as a steepler, an event he first attempted only months before, placing sixth. In 2016, in Rio, he took the Olympic silver medal, and in London 2017, he took the World Championships bronze medal.

Evan battled injuries from 2018 on, and this US Champs was an amazing series of races. Each race, he became more confident.

At the finish, he laid down for a minute to savor the accomplishment, of coming back to fitness after having lost fitness due to injuries over 4 years.

His second-place puts all in perspective. Congrats Evan!

Your workout for today, June 28, 2022 is warm up, 30 minute run, and cooldown.

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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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