2026 Spring Middle Distance Training (800m-5,000m), Tuesday April 21, 2026, Week 6, Day 2, Tempo Day!

Workout for Tuesday, April 21, 2026(Week 6, Day 2, Spring 2026)

These are your early Spring workouts. We are now in week five

Your Tuesday workout: Warm-up, 6 x 150-meter stride outs, 20 Minute tempo run (run at 25 seconds per mile pace SLOWER than current 5k pace), five minutes, easy running, 4 x 500-meters, at current two-mile/3k race pace, jog 400 meters, in between, 8 x 250 meters, at current two-mile/3k pace, 200 meters jog, 15 minutes of easy running, cooldown stretching, and HYDRATE!

Hydration is a state of mind. Hydration is not about drinking lots of sugary drinks; it is about getting down water, 8-12 glasses of 8-12 oz a day, carrying a water bottle, and managing caffeine intake and carbonated sugar drinks, which are absolute crap for a real athlete. Also, stay away from the so-called sports energy drinks and do not combine them with alcohol. Why train your butt off and then mess it up by putting some junk in your mortal engine?

Think before you drink.

Des Linden training, photo courtesy of Brooks Running

Do you want to be a better track runner than you were in the past? Focus and follow our training. It is all about the consistency.

For Winter reading! Self-Made Olympian by Ron Daws, A Clean Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, Pre! by Tom Jordan, Quicksilver, The Mercurial Emil Zatopek, by Pat Butcher, The Destiny of Alain Mimoun, by Pat Butcher (a monograph)

Remember, one day at a time!!!! #crosscountryrunning, #trackandfieldtraining, #springtraining

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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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