Week 2, Day 7, Summer season Mileage Program
Welcome to the seventh day and second 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 preserve it relaxed this week and add, week by week, extra challenges and extra inspiration!
Immediately we’re discussing the long term, and the way to take pleasure in it.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Your run as we speak is 60-65 minutes at average tempo, in cool a part of day, on trails, or secure roads.
Whereas I had run a number of lengthy runs (15-17 miles) by then, my first actual trustworthy long term was in June 1977 at San Jose Almaden Quicksilver Park. I ran 15 miles (higher Balls as they known as it), with Dan Durante (my coach), Don Clary (an early proponent of triathlons and bikini shorts), Hollis Logue III (long-time runner, author at Runner’s World, my former belief lawyer), the late Wealthy Stiller (nice man, my idol), Bob Lucas (my greatest buddy).
Quicksilver Park had a myriad of trails, and Don, Wealthy and Hollis took Bob and me by the middle of the park. The run was at conversational tempo (in all probability 7-7:30s), as Hollis had us laughing with obscene jokes each jiffy. Dan would giggle together with his New England accent and Wealthy and Don simply smiled.
We had been entertained immensely and thought these guys had been superb.
A half decade later, I recall operating half marathons in about 1:14, as Wealthy was operating 1:11 or so, and he instructed me that I’d do it sometime!
Lengthy runs are greatest with pals. I recall operating many a 15-22 miler with Pauly Gyorey and Gerhard Behrens, within the Santa Cruz Mountains, exterior of Los Gatos. Very long time to talk, after which, grind again as much as Dan Durante and his late spouse, Cheryl’s residence on Summit Highway.
Lengthy runs are about constructing endurance and confidence.
Good luck!
Get pleasure from your summer season operating.
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 improbable e-book by Tom Jordan ( I’ve gone by six copies and skim it 12 occasions): https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Americas-Best-Operating-Prefontaine/dp/0875964575
To take pleasure in a beautiful picture 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/.