Training for Tuesday, May 26, 2026 (Week 11, Day 2, Spring 2026)
These are your early spring workouts. We are already in week eleven!
Your Tuesday workout: Warm-up, 30 minutes of easy running, 20 minutes of total tempo, with two options:
to. 4 x 4 minutes at current average mile pace at current 5K race pace, plus 25 seconds, with 1 minute of jogging between the 4 minutes of Run Tempo. So if you run a 5K race at 18 minute pace, or 5:50 pace, you would run the 4 minutes at 6:25 mile pace.
b. 2 x 7 minutes, at current mile pace for 5K race pace, plus 25 seconds, with 3 minutes of jogging in between. So if you now have a 5:30 race pace for 5K, do it at 5:55 pace.
Cool down well, hydrate yourself.
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.
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
