Easy days are recovery days.
This is Wednesday, April 5, 2023
This is Week 4, Day 3, RunBlogRun Spring Training for the Middle Distances.
Our workout programs are based on Long run on Sunday, Tempo on Tuesday, Hills on Thursday, and race or track on Saturday. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are the recovery days.
We suggest a good warm-up, 8 sit-ups, push-ups, and pull-ups, 40-50 minutes of easy running, and a nice long cooldown.
Easy days are hugely important.
The season that I did the best, during my 12 weeks of racing, I ran no more than 30 minutes at a time, up to twice a day, easily, and I scored PBs for ten weeks in a row, from 2 miles to 10,000m.
Give your body the break it deserves.
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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