This is the hill workout for Thursday, October 20, 2022. This is day 4, week eight, for 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program.
This is day four, week eight of the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program.
Today is a hill workout. Hill workouts combine strength and speed.
Hills are a great way to get into shape. At Foothill College, where I coached with my friend, Joe Mangan, Joe’s secret weapon was hills. He used hills to get our runners who were not in shape in shape in three to four weeks (well, kind of). Joe also used hills to get athletes who could not handle speed to work well to use hill repeats.
Your workout today is a warm-up, 60-minute hill session, with 10 times 2 minutes uphill, 3 minutes jog, then a slow cooldown. Rehydrate and change into dry clothes.
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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