Larry’s Deep Thoughts:Recover today so you can race tomorrow.
Easy days are genuinely part of your training regimen. Run hard on the tough days, but follow the coaches’ plan. Run easy on the easy days. Train smart. Your body will handle the stress much better.
Edwin Flack won the 800m and 1,500m for Australia in the 1896 Olympics, photo by IOC.
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.
