2025 Spring Racing/Training Program, June 1, 2025, week 11, day 7, Eleventh Week of the season, Sunday is the long run!

The road to 2025 racing is in high season!

We have begun Spring Track & Field now for 14 weeks!

All Diamond Leagues are equal but some are more equal than others

Coffee with Larry, June 11, 2025, Some thoughts on Rome, Oslo Diamond League

This Day in Track & Field, June 12, Walter Tewksbury was first American to break 11 seconds (1900), Kjell Isaksson sets PV WR (1972), written by Walt Murphy

Thanks to the nice notes from coaches and athletes.

We will include tempo, hills, and some thresholds in the future.

We will give you 13 weeks of Spring Track & Field (going through US Junior Outdoor Champs).

Our program is for 800m to 5,000m.

This is week eleven of the Spring Track & Field Program.

We will begin our slow launch of Summer Mileage on June 2 as well.

Today is June 1 , 2025

Today is the seventh day of the eleventh week of Spring Track & Field.

Sunday is a long run, 75-90 minutes of moderate running, then, cooldown.

Hydrate and stretch. Always hydrate.

Make plans for spring racing. Write down your goals for the season on your iPhone or iPad or on a postcard, and read them daily. Dreams are fulfilled through hard work!

Some thoughts on your current season finishing.

Last night the CIF meet, the California State Meet finished. It is the last of the outdoor State Championship meetings. For those who are competing in the NIKE Outdoor or NB Outdoor, you have three more weeks of training and racing. For those of you, the 1.2 million who did not go to state meets this year, you are begining to take a break.

Have you considered cross country?

Cross Country is offered in over 16,500 high schools and many junior high schools. It normally goes from mid-August to November for most. To prepare for cross country, we at RunBlogRun encourage you and your 550,000 closest friends who like the 400m to 5,000m, consider cross country!

It is a great way to stay in shape and it builds your fitness so that you are ready for the challenges of cross country.

Here’s a Steve Prefontaine story to keep you inspired.

Steve Prefontaine was pretty cocky in high school. As a sophomore, he did not make the state meet, which was a bit of a surprise. He was really down about not making state. So, Steve spent the whole summer building his mileage each and every day. He ran every day over the summer. Not just miles, but also days of hard runs between lengths of telephone poles. When he came back to school in the fall, as he started his junior year, Pre was tough, and focused.

Other book suggestions include Self Made Olympian by Ron Daws, A Clean Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, and Pre! by Tom Jordan.

Steve Prefontaine, during summer of his sophomore year in high school, photo courtesy of Marshfield High School/TFN News

These are a photo of the NIKE Waffle racers that Steve Prefontaine used in 1974-75. They were sold at Sothebys for much more than the suggested retail price, photo Sothebys.

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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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