We focus on building the miles up during the first three weeks of our Summer Mileage Program.
This is your workout for Week 2, Day 5, Friday, July 14, 2023.
Your workout day is warm-up slowly, run 50 minutes in the hills, cool down slowly, and hydrate.
Cross country is one of the oldest. And the most iconic part of our sport of athletics. Runners from 400m (including 400m hurdles and decathlon) on up can benefit from cross country.
The late Bud Winter, the famous coach of San Jose State, had the late 400m WR holder Lee Evans run cross country. When I was coaching with Joe Managan at Foothill Community College, we had our decathlete and our 400m guys run cross country.
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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