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.

Run Session

Friday Fartlek Run – Dave Scott’s LT Threshold Intervals #4

By running near your Lactate Threshold (LT) you will enhance your running economy. This session is great for runners and triathletes running events up to Half marathons in distance.

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Run Session

Friday Fartlek Run – Oska Baynes Intervals

Spending time running at VO2 Max intensity will help develop your ability to run longer at this intensity. This is a perfect session for runners and triathletes running events up to half marathon in distance. In fact, Oska Baynes used this session 13 weeks out from placing second at the Christchurch Half Marathon in a time of 1:05:03!!!!

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Run Workout Session

Friday Fartlek Run: Run – Dave Scott’s LT Threshold Intervals #3

By running near your Lactate Threshold (LT) you will enhance your running economy. This session is great for runners and triathletes running events up to Half marathons in distance.

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Fartlek Session

Friday Fartlek Run – Matt Fitzgerald’s VO2 Progression J

Your VO2 max is a measure of the maximum amount of oxygen your body can utilise during exercise. If you increase your VO2 max, any run below that level is therefore easier (in theory). Spending time training at VO2 Max intensity will generate performance enhancements for runners of all distances but runners and triathlete running distances up to 10km will benefit the most.

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Run Workout

Friday Fartlek Run: Dave Scott’s LT Threshold Intervals #2

By running near your Lactate Threshold (LT) you will enhance your running economy. This session is great for runners and triathletes running events up to Half marathons in distance.

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Run Session

Friday Fartlek Run – Matt Fitzgerald’s VO2 Progression I

Your VO2 max is a measure of the maximum amount of oxygen your body can utilise during exercise. If you increase your VO2 max, any run below that level is therefore easier (in theory). Spending time training at VO2 Max intensity will generate performance enhancements for runners of all distances but runners and triathlete running distances up to 10km will benefit the most.

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Jack Daniels

Jack Daniels’ Running Intensity

How do you measure intensity? So many coaches use so many different methods, power, Heart Rate (HR), three zones, five zones, seven zones?? I’ve been planning a series of weekly articles for over a year now, looking at what different coaches prescribe (or used to prescribe) and why. This is the third article in the series, using Jack Daniel’s Running Formula as the primary reference.

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Dave Scott

Friday Fartlek Run: Dave Scott’s LT Intervals #1

By running near your Lactate Threshold (LT) you will enhance your running economy. This session is great for runners and triathletes running events up to Half marathons in distance.

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