2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, Week Eleven, Day Five, a day of recovery...

This is day five of the eleventh week of the 2022 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program.

This is a recovery day. We have three of them weekly (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).

Recovery days allow the runner to overcome the hard day of workouts. Recovery days are essential.

Today is Armistice Day. It honors those who died in the Great War, which ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day

of the 11th month of 1918.

Our picture today is of Bill Dellinger, who won the Olympic bronze in the 5,000 meters in 1964. Bill also ran in 1956 and

1960 Olympics. While in the military, Bill was stationed in Alaska, and he did his repeats by counting strides on his fingers.

Bill Dellinger was the coach of the University of Oregon for three decades, and his athletes continue to visit him. One of the

kindest people I have ever met, and one of my true heroes.

For your workout, warm up slowly, 45-55 minutes of running, 6 x 150-meter stride-outs, and cool down slowly.

Author

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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