This is Wednesday, May 23, 2024.
This is your workout for Week 11, Day 4.
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Enjoy the warm weather; just be careful to hydrate!.
Your workout today:
Warm-up today,
45-55 minutes easy to moderate pace,
6 x 150-meter stride-outs,
Cooldown,
hydrate,
get out of wet clothes,
recover.
Larry’s Deep Thought: Recovery day is a day to reduce the stress in your workout so your body can recover. Keep the day relaxed.
There are hard days and easy days in every training schedule.
In 1983, Joan Benoit Samuelson, shown below, set the World record in the marathon. The first Olympic marathon for women was just a year away! When Joan Benoit first began running, she ran with the boys’ team in high school.
Joan would go on to win the original Women’s Olympic Marathon in 1984, with silver medalist Grete Waitz, the 1983 World Champion, Ingrid Kristiansen, WR holder at 5,000m and 10,000m and former WR holder at Marathon, and Rosa Mota, a soon-to-be 3-x European Champion at the marathon (she had won in 1982), taking bronze in the Olympic marathon.
Joan Benoit Samuelson still races marathons, having completed the World Majors Marathon series, running in all six World Marathon Majors.
Joan Benoit Samuelson was a fierce trainer in the 1980s. 1983 Boston winner Greg Meyer told me that many of the guys in Boston would not train with her on her easy days!
In LA in 1984, Joan took off at 3 mils, and no one could catch her as she ran up and down the highways and byways of the City of Angels. Joan Benoit Samuelson was determined; it was her day.
Never give up your dreams!
When will your day be?
Author
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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