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.

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Friday Fartlek Session: McMillan’s Half Marathon 400’s

This session is a great way to enhance your half marathon speed. I got this session from Greg McMillan in an article where he recommends doing this session…

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Friday Fartlek Session: Sisyphus Session

This session is a great way to enhance your power and leg strength from running 5kms through to the half marathon. Sisyphus was a greedy and deceitful Greek king who got sentenced to rolling a boulder up a hill, to then watching it roll back down before repeating again until eternity. This session is a bit like that, but it doesn’t go on to eternity.

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Friday Fartlek Session: Brad Hudson’s 1-2-3-2-1min VO2 Run

This session is a great way to enhance your speed endurance and is great for 5km and 10km events. It comes from an article written by Matt…

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Friday Fartlek Run: 4x 1 Mile (200m Hard, 1,000m Solid, 400m Easy)

This session is a great way to develop race speed and a strong finishing kick. It is best done on an athletics track.

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