This is Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Happy St. Valentines Day!
This is day two, of Week Seven of the 2023 RunBlogRun Winter Training Block.
Today is a Tuesday, so, it must be fartlek. Fartlek is Swedish, and it came down from Olympian Gosta Holmer, who was coaching
the Swedish cross-country team in the 1930s, and they were not performing well. So, Gosta, being the creative coach, figured out how
to get his athletes off the track and onto the wonderful trails in Sweden and build their endurance, strength and speed, as well as their confidence!
Fartlek means “speed play”, so get speedy!
Your workout today: Warm-up well, then, 15 minutes of moderate running, then, ten times one minute hard, one minute easy, then, 3 minutes hard, 3 minutes easy, 4 minutes hard, 4 minutes easy, . Breathe again, and then, a gentle fifteen minutes slow to moderate, then a gentle 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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