2025 Spring Racing/Training Program, April 13, 2025, week 4, day 7, fourth week of year, Sunday is long run day !

The road to 2025 racing has just begun!

We have begun Spring Track & Field now for 14 weeks!

2025 Spring Racing/Training Program, April 18, 2025, week 5, day 5, fifth week of year, Friday is an easy file!

Conversations with Larry: Apeldoorn 2025 Review

This Day in Track & Field/Road Running, Nina Kusick becomes first official female to win Boston Marathon (1972), Grete Waitz sets WR at London (1983), edited and compiled by Walt Murphy

Thanks to nice notes from coaches and athletes.

We will include tempo, hills, and some thresholds upcoming.

We will give you 14 weeks of Spring Track & Field.

Our program is for 800m to 5,000m.

This is week four of the Spring Track & Field Program.

Today is April 13, 2025

Today is the seventh day of the fourth week of Spring Track & Field.

Last night, Janet Hendegren ran a superb 2 mile, the faster EVER by a high school girl! Janet, the victor at the 2024 NIKE NXN, the AR high school holder at 5,000m indoor and mile indoor, now has run a 9:34.12 at the always impressive Arcadia Invitational, which happened on Saturday night, April 12!

Your workout for Sunday, should be a long run, on good footing, easy pace, 75-90 minutes. If you are sore from Saturday racing, please kep the pace very easy, and cooldown well.

Hydrate and stretch. Always hydrate.

Make plans for spring racing. Write down your goals for the season on your iPhone or iPad or on a postcard, and read them daily. Dreams are fulfilled through hard work!

Jane HEDENGREN, won the 2024 NIKE NXN girls cross country championships by 40 seconds! photo courtesy of RUNNERSPACE

Spring Training, Some Thoughts

You are becoming fitter and fitter each and every day!

Your Winter training helped build your fitness, now we will focus on speed work, tempo runs and racing.

Other book suggestions include Self Made Olympian by Ron Daws, A Clean Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, and Pre! by Tom Jordan.

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Larry Eder
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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