This is Saturday, August 6, 2022.
It is day six of Week five in our RunblogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program.
Today is either a 5k race or a 5k workout on a track at varying speeds.
The women’s 800 meters at the Commonwealth Games a few hours ago was like that. Mary Moraa, the eventual winner, increased the speed, then slowed it down, and then kicked over the last 200 meters. The big surprise in the race was third place, as Laura Muir, known as a 1,500-meter runner, outkicked six 800m specialists to take bronze in the 800 meters!
Your workout today is a 5k hilly race, or warm up, go to track, run 12.5 laps sprinting the straights and jogging the turns, and then, a 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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