2025 Spring Racing/Training Program, May 2, 2025, week 7, day 6, seventh week of year, Racing day is Saturday!

The road to 2025 racing is in high season!

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

Thanks to the nice notes from coaches and athletes.

We will include tempo, hills, and some thresholds in the future.

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

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

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

Today is  May 3,  2025

Today is the 6th day of the seventh week of Spring Track & Field.

Saturday workout, Warm up slowly, take your time, 4 stride outs, then, race 1,500m, 800m, or 3000m, one race today, 30 minutes easy running, cooldown.

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.

Your Spring training is fine tuning you for 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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