This is Thursday, February 22, 2024.
This is Fartlek Day.
Gosta Holmer, an Olympian from Sweden who competed against Jim Thorpe, invented this interval program run on the trails and in parks.
Mr. Holmer developed it for the Swedish cross country team in the 1930s, who sucked in European competitions, and Gosta wanted to motivate them.
He did!
This is your workout:
Warm up today,
60 minute fartlek,
10 times 3 minutes hard, 3 minutes easy,
fifteen minutes of moderate to slow running after that.
Cooldown,
hyrdate
get out of your wet clothes,
recover;
Larry’s Deep Thoughts: Fartlek is for the newbie runner and elite. It provides challenging work at whatever your level.
Author
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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