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2023 RunBlogRun Spring Training for the Middle Distances, 800 meters to 5,000 meters, Week Five, Day One, an easy day…


This is Monday, April 10, 2023.

It is a recovery for the day one of Week 5 in our Spring training program.

Recovery days are key to your development; we schedule them on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Our suggested workout today:

Warm-up includes 10 pull-ups, 10 sit-ups, and 10 push-ups, then 35-50 minutes of easy running and a slow cool-down.

I recall the easy days that Paul Gyorey and I would do. Sometimes it was an am run before class and an afternoon run. The idea was to keep our

mileage up during the build-up but also keep the miles relaxed. We learned that hard days were focused, not over doing it, but easy days were really

a challenge to work on. When we mastered the hard day, and easy days, we started racing better.

  • Larry Eder

    Larry Eder has had a 50-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.”

    Theme song: Greg Allman, ” I’m no Angel.”

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