This is day five, week seven of the 2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program. It is a recovery day.
Many times, recovery days are even more important for athletes, as many athletes do not recognize easy days. Your body needs to have easy days to recover from the hard workouts, or your body will not get the benefits of the hard days.
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Today’s workout for August 20, 2022, is, warm up, 45-minute easy run, 6 x 150 meters, and cooldown.
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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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