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2023 RunBlogRun, Recovery from Track Season, Week One, Day 2, keep it relaxed…

Larry Eder

This is Tuesday, June 20, 2023.

It is day two of the first week of Track Recovery.

Keep it light, warm up gently, and enjoy a run in the woods, say 35-40 minutes, keep the pace relaxed, listen to the birds,

and enjoy the sites, and then cool down well, hydrate, and do something fun.

We schedule in two weeks of recovery twice a year, and encourage athletes who need more, say 3-4 to do so.

 

Your body needs a break after a long, rigorous season of track and field.

 

  • Larry Eder has had a 50-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.”

    Theme song: Greg Allman, ” I’m no Angel.” …

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