The fartlek workout set for Friday means that you can get in 3 good workouts in a week, as you prepare for the upcoming season.
Lucy Jenks takes the Junior Girls’ Mile, NB Indoor Mile, photo by Mike Deering / The Shoe Addicts
Friday, Feb. 7, 2020: Fartlek, 50 minutes, 10 x 2 minutes at 3k pace, 3k easy, cooldown
2020 RunBlogRun Spring Track & Field Training program, Week 6, Day 5
Monday: Hilly run, 50 minutes, include 10 uphill runs of 2 minutes each, cooldown
Tuesday: Easy 45 minutes, 4 x 150 m strideouts
Wednesday: 30 min warmup run, 12 x 400m, at 2 mile pace, 100m jog between each, 20 minute cooldown
Thursday: Easy 45 minutes, 4 x 150m strideouts
Friday: Fartlek, 50 minutes, 10 x 2 minutes at 3k pace, 3k easy, cooldown
Saturday: Easy 45 minutes, 4 x 150 m strideouts
Sunday: a modest long run, 60-65 minutes
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Larry Eder has had a 51-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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