This is Week 8, Day 2 of the Winter Training Block.
Today is Tuesday, February 21, 2023.
Our workout today comes from Sweden, it is speed play, or Fartlek in Swedish. Gosta Holmer, 1912/1920 Olympian and Sweden’s National coach formulated Fartlek to use repetitions on Sweden’s trails to build up the confidence of Swedish cross country runners in the 1930s.
Today is a combination workout.
Today’s workout: warm up slowly, 30 minutes, Holmer fartlek, go out moderate 20 minutes, come back hard in 15 minutes, then, 10 times one minute hard, one minute easy, then, five minutes hard, five minutes easy, then, cooldown slowly.
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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