Each week I will be posting the Friday Fartlek Run Sessions, most that you can do in under 60 minutes to enhance your running. Fartlek is a Swedish term that is often used by runners and it means speed-play. See the previous post about training intensity to know how hard to work. If you are working directly with Coach Ray he will in most cases prescribe either a Pace Zone or Heart Rate Zone to work within if you are training with these tools.
At the end of an event when your body is fatigued is when you get tested the most. This session aims to build that fatigue early, so your body can experience and adapt to the stimulus making your more prepared for that stage of the event. All runners (and triathletes) can benefit from this higher intensity of training, especially athletes with events from 10km out to a marathon.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Zwift Academy Tri 2020 Long Course Race Simulation
As with any other intensity the more time you spend running at it the better your body gets at running at that intensity. This session exposes your body to time at your threshold intensity and as a result you will improve your ability to sustain the higher pace in a race. All runners (and triathletes) can benefit from this higher intensity of training, especially athletes with events from 10km out to a marathon.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Zwift Academy Tri 2020 Threshold Economy
Tempo is a very important pace to include within a workout to build your ability to sustain pace. Within this workout, you increase the pace with each rep compared to the previous rep, running faster and faster as the workout progresses. All runners (and triathletes) can benefit from this higher intensity of training, especially athletes with events from 10km out to a marathon.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Zwift Academy Tri 2020 Progressive Tempo
As with last weeks run which targeted multiple intensities, today’s run is an over-under style of session with intervals mixing up intensities very close to your threshold giving you a good boost of fitness. All runners (and triathletes) can benefit from this higher intensity of training, especially athletes with events from 10km out to a marathon.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Zwift Academy Tri 2020 Threshold Builder
This 8 week programme will take you through challenging sessions that will build your fitness and speed in order to run 10km faster at the end of the programme.
View More Tuesday Training Plan: 8 Weeks to a Faster 10km RUNNING
This is a great session that targets multiple energy systems with reps of a three minute duration followed by a higher intensity. All runners (and triathletes) can benefit from this higher intensity of training, especially athletes with events between 5 and 10km in distance.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Kiwi Running Show’s Split Session
This is a great session that targets multiple energy systems with reps of a mile distance interspace with 400m reps at a higher intensity. All runners (and triathletes) can benefit from this higher intensity of training, especially atheltes with events between 5 and 10km in distance.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Kiwi Running Show’s 1 Mile, 400 Split
Hill reps are a great way to develop specific running strength and enhance your VO2 max and your anaerobic energy system. This is a great session to develop strength for all runners and triathletes upto and longer than marathon distance.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: 3-2-1 Hill Reps
Spending time running at Threshold intensity will build your ability to hold a fast pace and tolerate lactic acid. This session gets easier as you work your way through it. It involves running six miles at threshold intensity and is great for improving your performance over 10km to half marathon distance and longer.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: 3/2/1 Miles Threshold
Hill reps are a great way to build fitness. They are great for developing strength within ligaments and tendons but also muscular strength. The intensity run will also help to develop your VO2 max. As such this session is great for runners and triathletes of all distances, but especially for events which are 5 to 10km long.
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