2025 Winter Indoor Racing/Training Program, January 26, 2025, week 3, day 7, third week of year, building mileage, it’s Sunday!

The road to 2025 racing has just begun!

Welcome back from the break!

We will give you three weeks of good mileage and begin building to the Spring 2025 season.

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

This is week three of the Winter Indoor Racing/Training Program

During the winter, I suggest building mileage, doing some hill work, and running some short races (800m-3k) for

Some weekly speed work.

Sunday is your long run day!

Today is  January 26, 2025

Today is the seventh day of your third week of mileage.

warm-up,

Long run, 75-80 minutes, moderate pace,

catch your breath!

cool down,

and always hydrate.

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

Learn from Emil and Alain! 

Alain Mimoun took second to Emil Zatopek numerous times in the Europeans and Olympics. It was not until their third Olympics together, in the marathon, where Emil took sixth, that Alain won! Alain waited for his dear friend, and shared that his daughter, Olympia, had been born just prior to the race. Two wonderfully complex men and class acts. Read about them, learn about the history of the sport! Go to https://thepatbutcher.wordpress.com/ to get books on each! (Also read one of our sports finest writers EVER!)

Watch for a special offer on Emil Zatopek and Alain Mimoun book and monography from Pat Butcher, exclusively for RunBlogRun readers! Coming soon!

Other book suggestions: Self Made Olympian, by Ron Daws, , A Clean Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, , 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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