This is May 13, 2023.
This is your workout for Week Nine, Day 6.
Your workout is warm-up slowly, some stride-outs, a focused race at 800 meters,
1,500 meters or 5,000 meters, then a slow cool-down.
Your race today comes after nineteen weeks of training, and you should feel pretty good in racing right now.
Racing is getting faster and faster; remember to keep your focus over the last quarter of the race and try some different attempts at when you should make a major move in the races.
You might want to try the tip that I got from Bernard Lagat, who said that you should keep your cool and kick in the final 100 meters. If you do this, you better have a quick finish!
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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