Workout for Saturday, May 30, 2026,(Week 11, Day 6, Spring 2026)
These are your early Spring workouts. We are now in week eleven! The Spring season is coming to an end for most athletes. The Under Armour Nationals are this weekend, as is the CIF California State Meet. Most of the 1 million track athletes are finished with track and field.
If you want to race, do it! Find an all-comers meet, run a road race, do an event you have never raced!
On June 1, we will begin pre-season for the RBR Summer mileage program, and we encourage runners from 400 meters on up to try it.
We will also continue training for track and field through the NIKE Outdoor and New Balance Outdoors, which will be held June 18-21.
Fifty-one years ago today, Steve Prefontaine, the rock star of American track and field, was killed in an auto accident.
Your Saturday workout: Warm-up well, Race 800m, 1,500m, or 3000m! Or, try the 5,000m! Cool down well.
Hydration is a state of mind. Hydration is not about drinking lots of sugary drinks; it is about getting down water, 8-12 glasses of 8-12 oz a day, carrying a water bottle, and managing caffeine intake and carbonated sugar drinks, which are absolute crap for a real athlete. Also, stay away from the so-called sports energy drinks and do not combine them with alcohol. Why train your butt off and then mess it up by putting some junk in your mortal engine?
Think before you drink.
Do you want to be a better track runner than you were in the past? Focus and follow our training. It is all about the 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
