2024 Summer Recovery Weeks, Week 1, Day 2: Take it easy!

Week 3, Day 6, Recovery Week Three

Today, take a 45-50-minute run or a 45-minute walk.

2026 Winter Middle Distance Training (800m-5,000m), Monday, January 27, 2026, Week 4, Day 2, Tuesday is a Tempo Day!

This Day in Track & Field, January 25, Glenn Cunningham outkicks Joe Mangan in Boston (1936), Born on this Day: Steve Prefontaine, by Walt Murphy

This Day in Track & Field, January 24, In front of 10,000 fans, Joie Ray wins first of & 1 1/2 mile titles at Millrose (1917), by Walt Murphy

This is the beginning of the third week of our two—to three-week recovery time. The idea is to get a physical, mental, and spiritual break. We read books, nap, goof off, and get outside and enjoy nature.

This week, we suggest daily (4-5) 45-minute runs in the cool part of the day, relaxed, as a pre-week for the Summer Mileage Program, something we have done since the early 2000s.

The US Olympic Trials are tough, but they are straightforward. The British Trials take the first 2, well most of the time, then, select a third, but only if they have made the British selection standards, even if they were invited by World Athletics due to their World Rankings.

Team GB sent no women throwers (one was 5 cm off the standard, and a steeplechaser, who was invited to Paris by World Athletics and missed the Olympic standard by .15 of a second!

So, each country has its strangeness.

Alan Abrahamson wrote a piece about the honesty of the Olympic Trials system, which I encourage you to read: https://www.3wiresports.com/articles/2024/6/28/the-brutalist-trials-the-ultimate-american-exemplar-of-meritocracy-keep-it-that-way

Stuart Weir explains the Team GB for Paris and who misses out:https://www.runblogrun.com/2024/07/team-gb-athletics-squad-confirmed-for-paris-2024.html

Phil Norman misses steeplechase Olympic standard by .15! photo by Getty Images for British Athletics

Saturday , July 6, 2024

A 45-50-minute easy run.

If you need something to do outside (it is hot today), walk 30 minutes early, ride a bike, or, best yet, take a leisurely swim and enjoy the day!

Author

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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