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2026 Spring Middle Distance Training (800m-5,000m), Saturday, May 16, 2026, Week 9, Day 6, Saturday is a Track Day!

Olivia Reynolds
Olivia Reynolds

Training for Saturday, May 16, 2026 (Week 9, Day 6, Spring 2026)

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

Your Saturday training: Warm-up, 6 strides of 150 meters, run of 800 meters and 1,500 meters, or 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters, 30 minutes of easy running, cool down. Remember to change into dry clothing, put on recovery shoes, and hydrate.

Joe Klecker, winner, USATF Men’s 10,000m Champions, The Prefontaine Classic
Eugene, Oregon, USA
Athlete pre-competition training, photo by Kevin Morris

Hydration is a state of mind. Hydration isn’t about drinking lots of sugary drinks; it’s about drinking water, 8 to 12 8 to 12 ounce glasses a day, carrying a water bottle, and monitoring your intake of caffeine and carbonated sugary drinks, which are absolute crap for a true athlete. Also, stay away from so-called sports energy drinks and do not combine them with alcohol. Why train hard and then ruin it by putting some junk in your mortal engine?

Think before you drink.

Eliud Kipchoge training, in Kenya, photo of the NN Running team

Do you want to be a better track runner than in the past? Focus and follow our training. It’s all about consistency.

For winter reading! Self-Made Olympian by Ron Daws, A Clean Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, Pre! by Tom Jordan, Quicksilver, The Mercurial Emil Zatopek, by Pat Butcher, The Destiny of Alain Mimoun, by Pat Butcher (a monograph)

Remember, one day at a time!!!! #crosscountryrunning, #trackandfieldtraining, #springtraining

  • Larry Eder has been involved in the sport of track and field for 52 years. Larry has experienced sports as an athlete, coach, magazine editor, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4-minute runner, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several track and field magazines, from American Athletics to the US version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages content development and marketing for RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says, “I have to admit, I love traveling to faraway competitions, writing about the sport I love and the athletes I respect, for my runblogrun.com readers, which is what I’ve done most in my life, except maybe running.” He also does some updates for BBC Sports on key events, something he really enjoys.

    Theme music: Greg Allman, “I’m no Angel.”

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