2022 RunBlogRun Spring Middle Distance Daily Track Training (800m-5000m), Week 22, Day 5

The season is getting tougher and tougher. This week is the NCAA Champs in Eugene. In 2 weeks is the USATF Champs and the World Champs are about five weeks away!

If you are running one of the 4 Junior US Champs, you have something to focus on. Keep the workouts brisk, keep the easy days easy, and the tough days just what the

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coach asked for. Enjoy your easy day.

Men’s steeplechase, 2022 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Champs, June 8, 2022, photo by Kevin Neri

Your workout for today, June 10, 2022, is Friday: warm-up, 40-50 minutes of moderate running, 6 x150m stride outs, cooldown

2022 RunBlogRun Spring Middle Distance Daily Track Training (800m-5000m), Week 22, Day 5

Monday: warm-up, 40-50 minutes moderate running, 6 x 150m stride outs, cooldown

Tuesday: Warm-up, 30 minutes moderate running, 4 x 800m, 3,000m pace, jog 400m in between, 20-minute cooldown

Wednesday: warm-up, 40-50 minutes, moderate running, 6 x 150m stride outs, cooldown

Thursday: Warm-up, 30-minute easy run, 5000m, sprint straights, jog turns, 20-minute cooldown

Friday: warm-up, 40-50 minutes moderate running, 6 x150m stride outs, cooldown

Saturday: warm-up, primary race distance or 3 miles, sprint straights, jog turns, cooldown

Sunday: 75-80 minutes moderate pace, on trails

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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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