This is Week 3, Day six of the 2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program. Give us five more weeks, and our 8-week program will have you ready for Fall Cross Country!
The Women’s 5000-meter final is tonight and it will be tough! Three Americans are in the final, along with Letensebet Gidey, gold medalist, 10,000m, Gudaf Tsegay, silver medalist, 1,500 meters, and Sifan Hassan, who took gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m in Tokyo Olympics, plus bronze in the 1,500m, but is not as fit as last summer, it seems. How will they do over 12.5 laps? You will just have to wait and see!
Today’s workout, for July 23, 2022, Saturday is a warm-up, then 2 miles to 5k race, on roads or track, and then a good cooldown. If you do not do a race, then go to a park and do three five-minute hard runs, at a 5k pace, with a 5-minute jog in between, and warm-up and 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."
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