This is January 21, 2024.
This is your long day, the seventh day of the week.
Long runs are key to your development. This is meant for 800-meter runners to the marathon.
The father of modern distance training, Arthur Lydiard, had his 800m to marathoners train together
for the first two phases of their training, meaning that 800m stars like Peter Snell ran 22 miles on
Sunday, just like Murray Halberg (1960 Rome gold, 5,000m) , Barry Magee (marathon bronze) and
John Davies (bronze, 1,500m Rome 1960).
Your workout today:
Warm up slowly, 60-75 minutes of moderate running, on trails, on safe roads, or in a park. Enjoy the run
with your friends!
Cooldown slowly,
hydrate,
get into dry clothes,
Recover.
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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