Monday has been hill day. They are one of the secret sauces of training.
Jake Riley makes his first Olympic team, Abdi Abdirahman makes his 5th and Galen Rupp just made his 4th! photo by Kevin Morris
Monday, March 9, 2020: Hilly run, 50 minutes, include 10 uphill runs of 2 minutes each, cooldown
2020 RunBlogRun Spring Track & Field Training program, Week 11, Day 1
Monday: Hilly run, 50 minutes, include 10 uphill runs of 2 minutes each, cooldown
Tuesday: Easy 50 minutes, 6 x 150 m strideouts
Wednesday: 30 min warmup run, 16 x 300m, 800m pace, 300m jog between each, 20 minute cooldown
Thursday: Easy 50 minutes, 6 x 150m strideouts
Friday: Fartlek, 50 minutes, 5 x 5:00 minutes hard, 5 minutes easy, pace is 5k race pace, gentle cool down
Saturday: Easy 50 minutes, 6 x 150 m strideouts
Sunday: Long runs, 75-80 minutes.
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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