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2026 Spring Middle Distance Training (800m-5000m), Tuesday, April 21, 2026, Week 6, Day 2, Tempo Day.


Training Tuesday, April 21, 2026 (Week 6, Day 2, Spring 2026)

These are your early spring workouts. We are now in week five

Your Tuesday workouts. Warm-up, 6 x 150-meter walk, 20-minute tempo run (run 25 seconds/mile slower than current 5k pace), five-minute easy run, 4 x 500 meters, current two miles/3k at race pace, run 400 meters, 3k, 3k, 25-mile between meters, 200-meter run, 15-minute easy run, cool down stretch and HYDRATE.

Des Linden, running in the 5,000 meters at the Martinez Invite, photo by Kevin Morris

Hydration is a state of mind. Hydration is not drinking too many sugary drinks. it’s about drinking water, 8-12 glasses of 8-12 ounces a day, carrying a water bottle, and managing caffeine and sugary drinks, which for a true athlete are absolute crap. Also, stay away from so-called sports energy drinks and don’t combine them with alcohol. Why train your ass and then mess it up by putting some junk in your mortal engine?

Think before you drink.

Training by Des Linden, photo courtesy of Brooks Running

Want to be a better runner than you were before? Focus and follow our training. It’s all about consistency.

For winter reading. By Self-Made Olympian Ron Dawes, Clean Heels by Murray Hallberg, Pre! by Tom Jordan, Quicksilver, Mercurial Emil Zatopek, Pat Butcher, The Fate of Allen Mimoun, Pat Butcher (monograph)

Remember, one day !!!! #crosscountryrunning, #trackandfieldtraining, #springtraining

  • Larry Eder has been involved in athletics for 52 years. Larry has experienced sports as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now a journalist and blogger. His first article, about Don Bowden, America’s first 4-minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from USA Track and Field to the American version of Spikes magazine. He currently leads content and marketing development for RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. On RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: “I have to admit, I love traveling to long-distance meets, writing about the sport I love and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most I’ve ever done besides running.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports at major events which he really enjoys.

    Theme Song: “I’m No Angel” by Gregg Allman.



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