by Larry EderI sure hope that you were able to watch the Nike Pre Classic. Named in memory of the late Steve Prefontaine, the meet provides a legacy that would have made Pre happy. He loved track & field, and he liked the pursuit of challenges. Prefontaine was the most serious athlete you have ever met and the center of the party as well. America loved Prefontaine as he was a rock star, Olympic athlete, and colorful. He was, well, a character. Yet, he did things few people knew. He visited a state penitentiary to help inmates run and get their acts together. Few knew about that until after his death. No one should die at the age of 24, but Pre did, and his brutal frankness, his whimsicalness, his desire to be challenged all out has kept the whispering in our ears since May 30, 1975, “Do you have anything left? Is there anything more that you can give?”
Steve Prefontaine, 1951-1975, photo courtesy of Nike communications
Monday: light run, 45 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.
2021 RunBlogRun, week # 13, Summer mileage, day 1
Monday: light run, 45 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.
Tuesday: warm-up, 4 x 6 minutes, 5k race pace, 3 minute jog in between intervals, on XC course, or park, cooldown.
Wednesday: light run, 45 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m light cooldown.
Thursday: warm-up, Hill repeats, 6 x 200m up the hill, jog easy down, 20 minutes good pace, 6 x 300m, at 800m pace, 100m jog between, slow cooldown.
Friday: light run, 45 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.
Saturday: warm-up, 3 x 1 mile, 800m jog, miles at 5k pace, 4x150m stride outs, cooldown
Sunday: Long run, 75-90 minutes, at a conversational pace
