by Larry EderThis is Day six, week 3 of the Brooks/RBR Spring Middle Distance Daily Track Training. The Chinese philospher Lao-Tse noted, centures ago, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”.
That could have been said by Des Linden. In her racing, whether it is on the cross country courses in Italy, the marathons of major cities and track races, both indoors and outdoors, it is about the challenge and how one manages those challenges.
Consider that last year, Des Linden set a new WR for 50k, of 2:59.54. That means she ran 26.2 miles at under six minute pace, and then, ran 4.8 more miles just over mid five minute pace!
That’s not the hardest part of being a distance runner. It is the day to day runs, as one only gets better by training , day in, day out, and knowing when to take it easy and when to push it. Des Linden gets that.
Before than, Des ran cross country and the 1,500m and 800m in high school, and cross country and the 5k in college. It took her twelve years of running to show her true talents.
Thanks to Brooks Running for giving us access to Des. To learn more about Brooks just click on Brooks Running.
Des Linden, on the run, photo by Brooks Running
Today’s workout: January 29, 2022, Saturday: warm up, All comers meet, indoor meet, 800m if you are 3-5k, 3k if you are 800m person, 3k if you are 1,500m person, cooldown
Today’s clip from Des Linden, Thoughts on racing, https://youtu.be/
The complete Des Linden interview is here:
https://www.runblogrun.com/2020/07/socialing-the-distance-featuring-des-linden-full-interview.html
Des Linden on witter: https://twitter.com/des_linden
Brooks Running Twitter: https://twitter.com/brooksrunning
Brooks Running Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brooksrunning/
Brooks presents: 2022 RunBlogRun Spring Middle Distance Daily Track Training (800m-5000m), Week 3, Day 6
Monday: warm up, 30-45 minutes moderate running, 4 x 100m stride outs, cool down
Tuesday: 45 minutes running on trails, 4 times 2 minutes hard, with 5 minute moderate running, warm up and cooldown
Wednesday: warm up, 30-45 minutes, moderate running, 4 x 100m stride outs, cooldown
Thursday: warm up, warm up, 45 minute fartlek, 10 minutes running, then 12 x 1 minute hard, 1 minute easy, 11 minutes running, then cooldown
Friday: warm up, 30-45 minutes moderate running, 4 x100m stride outs, cooldown
Saturday: warm up, All comers meet, indoor meet, 800m if you are 3-5k, 3k if you are 800m person, 3k if you are 1,500m person, cooldown
Sunday: 55-60 minutes moderate pace, on trails
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