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Category: Run Sessions
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.
Friday Fartlek Run: Goater’s sets of 200’s
This session is great to improve your speed for runners aiming for an event between 5km and a half marathon.
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Friday Fartlek Run: 5x 800m
This session is great to sharpen your speed during a taper for runners aiming for an event between 10km and a marathon.
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Friday Fartlek Run: 4x 6min Threshold
This session is great to develop speed for runners aiming for an event between 10km and marathon distance.
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Friday Fartlek Run Session: Odd Distances
This session will give your body a different training stimulus by getting you to run fast over distances not usually done. Put some speed back…
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Friday Fartlek Run Session: Progressive Run
This is a great way to incorporate some speed work into your long run and prepare you for some hard running at the end of…
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Friday Fartlek Run Session: McGregor and Fitzgerald’s Hill Reps
This is a great session that is effectively lactate intervals or speed intervals run uphill. As well as developing lactate tolerance, they also build run-specific strength.
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The Long Run With 4x 100m Stride Outs
I have prepared this article to illustrate the concept of what a long run with 4x 100m stride outs near the end will look like.
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Friday Fartlek Run Session: 5x 5min VO2 Max Session
This is a great fartlek run session to enhance your speed over both half marathon and marathon distances. It will also give you a solid base…
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Friday Fartlek Run Session: Pete Pfitzinger’s VO2 Max 5x 600m
This is a great fartlek run session to enhance your speed over both half marathon or marathon distances but will also enhance your 5km and 10km.
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