2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program, Week 3, Day Seven

This is day seven in Week 3, of the 2022 RunBlogRun Summer Cross Country Mileage Program. Today is all about the long run.

The long run is one of the essential elements in a middle and long-distance runner’s weekly regimen. Coaches such as the late Arthur Lydiard, a former New Zealand milkman and marathon champion, took ten young men from his neighborhood and coached them into the Olympic gold medalist in the 800m and 1,500m, Olympic bronze at 1,500m, Olympic gold at 5,000m and Olympic bronze at the marathon. His regimen, built around 100-mile endurance training weeks, hill phases, speed phases, and racing phases, where the distance drops dramatically, influences all modern distance training.

We used his methods and spirit in this training program.

For your workout today, July 24, 2022, please warm up, run 55-60 minutes at a pace you can talk at, and consider running on trails, and then hydrate and cool down. See you tomorrow!

Author

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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