This is your workout for Sunday, October 16, 2022.
It is your long run day, and it is day seven of week 7 of the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program.
Long runs were one of my favorite workouts. I recall a run-up in the Santa Cruz mountains, doing our relaxed fifteen-mile run the day after a race. We were followed the entire run by an Irish Setter, who kept up with us with no problem as we ran under the wonderful redwood trees.
The dog joined us for runs off and on for several years. I recall running a 20 miler out there, all by my lonesome, and my partner was the Irish setter, who just stayed right next to me for the two-plus hours.
Your workout today is warm up, a 70-80 minute long run, and a relaxed cool-down.
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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