This is Sunday, August 13, 2023.
This is day 7, Week Six of the RunBlogRun 2023 Summer Mileage Program.
Long runs are part of our weekly program.
Your long runs in high school should be 65-90 minutes. Keep the pace moderate, and over the last 20-30 minutes, pick up the pace for ten minutes, then slow down over the last ten minutes.
Warm up, run for 75-90 minutes, and then cool down.
Long runs are one of the key workouts. Frosh/Soph should go no longer than 65-75 minutes. Juniors/Seniors should be able to build up to 75-90 minutes.
Remember, Junior/Seniors should consider 30-minute runs in Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The pace in those runs is quite easy.
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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