Long runs are key parts of our training. If one is to be a middle or long distance runner, the Sunday long run is part of the program. Want to succeed, want to prepare your body to handle the speed days, then do your long runs.
Right now, we want you to run this at a conversational pace. That keeps it relaxed. Remember to hydrate and stretch afterwards….with the heat in the summer, lots of veteran runners like to do long runs early in the morning.
Duane Solomon, photo by PhotoRun.net
Sunday: Long, relaxed run of 50 minutes. Suggest running with a group and get off the roads and run some trails. Keep the pace at conversational pace, the idea is to stay on your feet for the required time. Make sure that you cooldown and stretch, getting some water and changing out of wet clothes.
#crosscountry, #summertraining
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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