This is Friday, December 15, 2023.
This is Week one, Day 5 of the first Recovery week.
After 24 weeks of Cross Country, it is time for you to take a break.
When I ran in college, I had observed that the New Zealand athletes that I totally admired,
and Ron Daws, a 1968 Olympian who was a Lydiard acolyte, broke the year up into two 26-week
periods. Two weeks of recovery, 10 weeks of build-up, 4 weeks of hills, 6 weeks of track work, and 4 weeks of racing.
When I began this program, i was shocked at how quick I began to improve. Now, understand I raced almost all year,
25-35 times a year. Many of those races were to just keep me moving.
Your workout today is either bike for 30 minutes, walk for 45 minutes, or run for 30 minutes. And 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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