Larry’s Deep Thoughts:Hills are the secret sauce. Olympians like Lasse Viren used 800m hills to prepare for both Munich and Montreal, as he was dealing with tender Achilles tendons. At Foothill College, head coach Joe Mangan and I used hill runs, hill fartleks, and hill repeats to build our cross-country team from early-season blahs to late-season confidence and focus.
This is the special make for Josh Kerr. This is the Brooks Hyperion Elite LD, from Brooks Running
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.
