2025 Spring Racing/Training Program, April 8, 2025, week 4, day 2, fourth week of year, Tuesday is a tough day!

The road to 2025 racing has just begun!

We have begun Spring Track & Field now for 14 weeks!

Thanks to nice notes from coaches and athletes.

We will include tempo, hills, and some thresholds upcoming.

We will give you 14 weeks of Spring Track & Field.

Our program is for 800m to 5,000m.

This is week four of the Spring Track & Field Program.

Today is  April 8,  2025

Today is the second day of the fourth week of Spring Track & Field.

Warm up well, tempo run 20 minutes ( 20 seconds per mile slower than 5k racing pace), 16 x 200 meters, mile race pace, 200m jog, 30 minutes of easy running.

Hydrate and stretch.  Always hydrate.

Make plans for spring racing. Write down your goals for the season on your iPhone or iPad or on a postcard, and read them daily. Dreams are fulfilled through hard work!

Spring Training, Some Thoughts

You are becoming fitter and fitter each and every day!

Your Winter training helped build your fitness, now we will focus on speed work, tempo runs and racing.

Other book suggestions include Self Made Olympian by Ron Daws, A Clean Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, and Pre! by Tom Jordan.

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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