Today is the long run.
Find your friends to run the long run. I do not specify a pace as I note conversational pace. This means that, if you can hold a conversation at this pace, you are doing just about fine. The idea is to build your strength and endurance.
Ben True, World Cross Country, 2013,
Sunday: Long, easy run, 55-60 minutes, on grass or dirt, with friends. Keep the pace relaxed, and enjoy a conversation with your friends. Going on trails, running on deserted old roads, through a park makes Sunday runs much more enjoyable.
Long runs are important in your weekly training regimen. They give your body time to build endurance and also recover from the week before. We will be building this up to 70 minutes for high schoolers and 90-1:45 for college runners.
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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