This is the last couple of weeks of the season.
We end around the High School Champs weekend, June 15-18, 2023.
Then, we do a couple weeks of recovery and begin summer mileage in July.
This is Monday, June 5, 2023.
This is a recovery day.
Your workout today is warm-up slowly, 17 sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, 45-55 minutes of running, 6 x 150-meter stride outs, then a slow cooldown.
I wanted to tell you about Abdi Nur. On Friday, May 26, Abdi fell within 200 meters of the start of a crowded 5,000 meters at the LA Grand Prix.
Abdi immediately got up, moved back up into the front back, and battled for the win, running 13:05.17, three seconds under the qualifier for the World Champs in Budapest.
I spoke with Abdi post-race and asked him if he had any second thoughts after he fell. He said he got up so fast because he knew he was fit and that he had time to get his race goal.
Never give up!
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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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