Week 1, Day 7, Summer season Mileage Program
Welcome to the seventh day and first week of the 2024 Summer season Mileage Program, which runs for ten weeks till mid-September.
Our aim is to construct you into a robust cross-country runner.
We hold it relaxed this week and add, week by week, extra challenges and extra inspiration!
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Sunday is an efficient day; take pleasure in a reasonable run of 60-65 minutes. As we start the summer season mileage, it’s about constructing some miles.
Summer season mileage will change your life.
Steve Prefontaine didn’t prefer to run over 15 miles.
He would run into the cemetery behind Hayward Subject, within the rain, for an hour, and his coaching buddies would simply hand on his shoulder as he went up and down the pathways of the outdated Oregon cemetery.
I ran on the Santa Clara Mission Cemetary, on the trail across the within the cemetery, based within the 1850s. I did 10-15 milers there as a guard on the Mission Cemetary within the night. The gravel path was simple on my path sneakers (adidas Marathon trainers), and I loved the quiet within the cemetery. At all times ask permission earlier than you run on non-public property.
What do you need to do that summer season? What do you need to obtain?
To be taught concerning the late Steve Prefontaine (1951-1975), please learn this incredible guide by Tom Jordan ( I’ve gone by way of six copies and skim it 12 occasions): https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Americas-Best-Working-Prefontaine/dp/0875964575
To take pleasure in an exquisite photograph gallery of Steve Prefontaine, courtesy of the Eugene-Register Guard, please go right here: https://www.registerguard.com/picture-gallery/sports activities/2022/07/07/oregon-distance-runner-phenomenon-steve-prefontaine-olympican-eugene-hayward-field/7336370001/
