Today is Thursday, January 5, 2022.
It is the first Thursday of the year. Over the next eight weeks, we will begin to prepare you to race outdoors. Today is a hill day.
Hills are a secret sauce for some. We use it as one of 3 thought workouts a week as they build turnover. My head coach at
Foothill, Joe Mangan, could get Junior college athletes in shape in about six weeks purely on hills. We called it the secret sauce. Speed, endurance, and confidence. All in those darn hills.
Your workout today is to warm up, run 30 minutes moderate pace to a tough pace, jog for 3-5 minutes, find a 200m hill and do
six hill charges up the hill, jog down, then 15-minute cooldown.
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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