Good morning; this is the beginning of week 3 of the 2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program. This is day 1, an easy day.
On Saturday, July 17, we had the women’s 10,000m. The race for 25 laps came down to the final 50 meters as defending champion Sifan Hassan, Letensenet Gidey, WR holder at 5k and 10k, and Hellen Obiri, Olympic and world champion, dueled.
Letensebet Gidey holds off Hellen Obiri, and Sifan Hassan in the Women’s 10,000m, World Championships Eugene, Oregon, USA July15-26, 2022
How it must feel to have to dig in for those last meters to get your finish in a tough distance race. In the women’s 10,000m, Letensenet Gidey took the gold by holding off Hellen Obiri, and Margaret Kipkemboi. Margaret just went by Sifan Hassan, the defending champion at 10,000m.
This was first gold for Gidey, who had been out sprinted many times before. What a feeling!
Your workout today, July 18, 2022 is warm up, 45 minutes relaxed running, 5 x 150 meter stride outs, cooldown.
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."
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."
by Larry Eder
