This is your workout for Tuesday, January 10, 2023.
Tuesday is a day for fartlek.
Fartlek is the Swedish word for speed play. Gosta Holmer, an Olympian (1912 & 1920, decathlon, heptathlon, 110m hurdles) and former Swedish national coach, aghast at how poorly the Swedes were running in the 1930s, began these workouts, which can be quite simple and also quite complex. The room for individuality and the room for fine-tuning is all there.
We like to suggest fartlek on good footing and trails, but it can be anywhere.
Your workout today: warm up slowly, 20 minutes of moderate running, 30-minute fartlek, 10 times two minutes hard, one minute easy, 20 minutes of moderate running, then a cooldown.
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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