This is day six of the first week of recovery, Saturday, December 17, 2022.
We encourage three weeks of recovery after the season. Many of our readers have decided to finish the season with either an indoor race or a fast road race in good weather.
We all like PBs, but please remember that ending the season and taking a break is key to your spring and summer success.
If you race this weekend, warm up slowly and race in flats. Track spikes are equipment, and you should at least walk around the house, without elements for a few days and do some stride-outs for a few days before you race.
Right now, you are in great shape for a 3,000m, two miles, or 5,000m on the track.
Cooldown well.
If you choose NOT to race, then warm up, and then, run for 40 minutes on the trails
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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