2026 Winter Center Distance Coaching (800m-5,000m), Monday, February 3, 2026, Week 5, Day 2, Tempo Day is Tuesday!

Hi there, highschool distance runners and right here’s our Winter Coaching Information (Jan-March) from RunBlogRun! 

That is the second  in week 5 of our ten week Winter Coaching program, which fits up till the NIKE Indoor Championships (March 12-15, 2026, extra data at https://nikeindoornationals.runnerspace.com/).

The purpose is to have you ever in observe form at the beginning of Outside season (March in a lot of the nation).

The NIKE Indoor Nationals can be held on March 12-15, 2025 on the NIKE Monitor & Subject Armory. We encourage excessive schoolers to race indoors however all the time observe that the Huge Season is Open air! 

Exercise for Monday, February 2, 2026

Your exercise: Heat-up effectively, Tempo Run, 21 minutes, damaged up into 5 minutes at common mile tempo for present 2 mile race, slowed by 20-25 seconds per mile , so in the event you race at 10 minutes for two miles, tempo is 5:25. Take two minute of straightforward working, then, repeat 2 extra occasions, then, straightforward half-hour of working, and stretch. 

Hydration is a way of thinking. Hydration will not be about consuming plenty of sugary drinks, it’s about getting down water, 8-12 glasses of 8-12 oz a day, carrying a water bottle, and managing caffeine consumption and carbonated sugar drinks, that are absolute crap for an actual athlete. Additionally, avoid the so referred to as sports activities power drinks and don’t mix them with alcohol. Why prepare your butt off after which, mess it up by placing some junk in your mortal engine?

Assume earlier than you drink.

In the event you want a little bit extra cushioning, strive the Vomero 18. The Vomero 18 has extra cushioning that the Pegasus PLUS. In the event you like NIKE, I’d counsel excessive schoolers use the NIKE Pegasus PLUS for Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I’d counsel the Vomero 18 for Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I all the time counsel two pairs of coaching footwear.  Study extra on www.nikerunning.com.

Do you wish to be a greater cross nation runner than you have been up to now? Focus and observe our coaching. It’s all in regards to the consistency. 

For Winter studying! Self Made Olympian by Ron Daws, A Clear Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, Pre! by Tom Jordan, Quicksilver, The Mercurial Emil Zatopek, by Pat Butcher, The Future of Alain Mimoun, by Pat Butcher (a monograph)

Bear in mind, someday at a time!!!! #crosscountryrunning, #trackandfieldtraining, #winterrunning, #wintertraining, 

Larry Eder has had a 52-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 revealed in RW in 1983. Larry has revealed a number of magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. model of Spikes journal. He presently manages the content material and advertising and marketing growth of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his every day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I like touring to far-off meets, writing in regards to the sport I like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, probably the most of something I’ve ever performed, besides, perhaps working itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he really enjoys.

Theme tune: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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