The building continues….the big races are 3 months away….
This is your workout for Thursday, January 18, 2024
Our workout today is a good hill day:
Warmup slowly,
20 minutes, easy to moderate running,
8 x 400m hills, jog down,
20 minutes running, moderate to hard,
8 x 200m hills, jog down,
20 minutes moderate to easy,
slow cooldown,
hydrate,
change out of wet clothes,
change shoes,
recover,
Josh Kerr is the World Champion, photo by Kevin Morris.
Deep thoughts from Larry: In their campaign to win an Olympic medal, Danny Mackey (the coach) and Josh Kerr (the athlete) built a 3 year plan for success. Each day builds on the day before, each race reveals something new, and the coach and athlete communicate with the final goal in mind. In 2021, Josh Kerr took the Olympic bronze at the 1,500m. In 2022, recovering from COVID-19, Josh took 5th in WC 1,500m in Eugene and 6th in 1,500m at Commonwealth. In 2023, in good health and full of confidence, Josh Kerr took the World Championships gold at 1,500m, defeating Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen. One wonders out loud what Josh Kerr and his coach, Danny Mackey have planned for 2024!
Larry Eder has had a 51-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.”
