Showing your body race pace efforts is important for developing pacing control for your event. These intervals are great for developing your race speed for a half marathon or longer. This session is great for runners and triathletes especially those running a half marathon or longer.
Each week I will be posting the Friday Fartlek Run Sessions that you can do to enhance your running. Fartlek is a Swedish term that is often used by runners and it means speed-play. See a previous post about training intensity (levels) to know how hard to work.
The inspiration for this workout comes from Matt Dixon’s book Fast-Track Triathlete.
Matt Dixon’s 70.3 Run Intervals
- 10min WU Level II;
- 6-8x 1km Level III+, 2min RI;
- 10min CD Level II;
- 10min Stretching
Start the workout with a warm-up (WU) for a minimum of ten minutes of easy jogging at Level II.
The main set is made up of between six and eight reps of one kilometre. These are run at slightly faster than your 70.3 (or half marathon) goal pace (by about ten seconds per mile or six seconds per kilometre), this will be in the top end of your Level III. Take a two-minute Rest Interval (RI) between reps.
The Cool Down (CD) is at a low intensity, jogging (Level II) for a minimum of ten minutes.
Finish with 10 minutes of stretching to assist with the recovery.
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