Workout for Saturday, May 16, 2026,(Week 9, Day 6, Spring 2026)
These are your early Spring workouts. We are now in week nine.
Your Saturday workout: Warm-up, 6 x 150 meters stride-outs, race 800 meters and 1,500 meters, or 1500 meters and 5000 meters, 30 minutes of easy running, cooldown. Remember to get into dry clothes, change into recovery shoes, and hydrate.
Eugene, Oregon, USA
athlete’s pre-meet training, photo by Kevin Morris
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.
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
