This is your workout for Saturday, January 7, 2023.
This is week one, day six of the Winter Training Block for 2023.
We kept this week pretty light. Today you can run an easy 40 minutes or run a race shorter or longer than your Spring focus. So, if you race 800m, try the 400m, 600m, or 1000m. If you race 3k, try the 1,500m or two miles, or 5000m.
The indoor season is 8-10 weeks in the season, and as we see it, a nice diversion, but the focus is Outdoor season and fall cross country. This is a long-term approach. No issues with indoors as long as it is not the rabbit hole that takes you away from the serious season.
Your workout for today is warm up slowly, 40 minutes run on trails, cooldown. Or, if you choose to race,
warm up slowly, do some stride outs, race, then a long cooldown, and stretch well after the 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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