This is your workout for Wednesday, October 25, 2023.
This is a Recovery Day for Week 8!
Recovery days give your body the break it needs to gain benefits from the stress of the day of hard training.
Your workout today: Warm up well, 45-55 minutes of easy to moderate running, and then 6 x 150m stride outs, followed by a cooldown.
In 1979-1980 and 1981, I trained at West Valley Community College under the watchful eyes of Dan Cruz and Bill Campbell. The team at West Valley embraced us, and we had a blast.
I trained with Tom Dorst, Chris Amaral, and Rick Riordan. Paul Gyorey and I would go there on hard days but trained on our own on the easy days, as we were afraid that we would run way too hard on what was supposed to be an easy day.
Remember, keep easy days really easy!
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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