2019 RunBlogRun Fall Cross Country Training & Racing Program, Week 22, Day 2, shaking up Tuesdays...

Today is a fun workout. I used to love this one. Jogging the curves and sprinting the straights. The speed comes easy, and you go, “Wow, I am fast!” That is the idea!

Taryn Parks, FL NE, photo by Photorun.net

Coffee with Larry (on You Tube), May 6, 2025, Thoughts on Grand Slam Track Miami, Shanghai Diamond League, and my Chat with BBC!

Galen Rupp at the 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon; Deep thoughts on how you build a long term career!

GBTC Remembers 1975!

This 3 mile sprint workout is about changing gears, like you will do in FootLocker, NXN or USATF Club and Junior courses. Enjoy!

Tuesday: 20 minute warm up, 3 miles on track, sprint straights, jog turns, final mile at current 5k race pace, sprinting straights, jogging turns, 20 minute cool down

Week 22, Fall XC Training week 22, focusing on NXN regionals, Foot Locker regionals…

Monday: 50 – 60 minute park run, 4 x 150m strideouts

Tuesday: 20 minute warm up, 3 miles on track, sprint straights, jog turns, final mile at current 5k race pace, sprinting straights, jogging turns, 20 minute cool down

Wednesday: 30-45 minute run, 4 x 150m stride outs, cooldown, relaxed

Thursday: Thanksgivinging, 50 minute easy run, cooldown

Friday: 30-45 minute minute park run, relaxed

Saturday: warm up, 5k race, get out well, and focus on one person at a time, take them strongly, finish well, cool down

Sunday: 85-90 minute long run

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Larry Eder
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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