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2026 Spring Middle Distance Training (800m-5,000m), Monday , May 20, 2026, Week 10, Day 3, Wednesday is an Easy Day!

Olivia Reynolds
Olivia Reynolds

Training for Wednesday, May 20, 2026 (Week 10, Day 3, Spring 2026)

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

Your Wednesday workout: Slow warm-up, 45 minutes of easy running, 4 cuts of 200 meters, 15 minutes of easy running, cool down. Please hydrate well.

Getting ready to workout, Katie Snowden, UA Dark Sky, photo by Steve Haas

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.

Steve Prefontaine, after training with coach Bill Dellinger, photo courtesy of The Eugene Register-Guard

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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