2024 RunBlogRun Winter Training Program, Week 4, Day 2, Tuesday is the hills, glorious hills!

That is Tuesday, January 23, 2024.

Throughout my six years teaching at Foothill Group Faculty in Los Altos, CA, the top coach, Joe Mangan, taught me his secret sauce.

It was the hills. We had hills throughout campus and within the surrounding Los Altos Hills, a really rich enclave close to Los Altos.

Our idea was that we may get most 800m-5000m athletes in racing form in about six weeks if the did THE HILLS.

Hills can construct pace, power, and confidence.

Right here’s a difficult one!

Exercise for Day 2, Week 4:

Warmup slowly,

20 minutes, eay to reasonable,

8 x 400m hills, push exhausting, jog down slowly,

20 minutes, reasonable,

8 x 300m hills, push exhausting, jog down slowly,

20 minutes reasonable to exhausting,

6 x 150m stride outs,

Cooldown, slowly,

hydrate,

develop into dry garments,

recuperate.

Larry’s deep ideas: Many coaches use Hill Reps all yr lengthy. The good Rob De Castella, WC 1983, Boston 1986, Comm Video games twice gold, had his Tuesday exercise every week a hill day. If you can’t discover hills, do an overpass, or run two minutes, excessive knees in snow, that can wipe you out! Only one set of snow reps, please.

Larry Eder has had a 51-year involvement within the sport of athletics. Larry has skilled the game as an athlete, coach, journal writer, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was printed in RW in 1983. Larry has printed a number of magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. model of Spikes journal. He at the moment manages the content material and advertising and marketing improvement of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his each day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I really like touring to far-off meets, writing in regards to the sport I really like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, probably the most of something I’ve ever achieved, besides, perhaps working itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he really enjoys. Theme music: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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