Today is Wednesday, day 3 in the fourth week of the 2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program.
Today is the seventieth anniversary of one of the most incredible performances of all time. In July 1952, Emil Zatopek, the Czech Locomotive, won the 10,000m, then the 5,000m, and then his first marathon. Halfway the the marathon, Emil asked the WR holder in the marathon, Jim Peters, ” Jim, is this a good pace?”. Peters took the bait and took off, only to collapse before 20 miles. Emil went on to win and entered the stadium as his wife took gold in the javelin!
Recovery days are critical in your development. We give you easy days on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Your workout today, July 27, 2022, was a warmup, 45-minute run, 6 x 150-meter stride outs, and cooldown.
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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