Just wondering
Just wondering
i'm pretty serious, and yes i do fartlek runs.
usually fast/shorter type stuff towards the end of a season.
I do
I do fartleks. My last one was 3-4-5-4-3 min @ about MaxVO2 effort with 2min rest between each rep. Was tough.
Emil Zapotek.
Well, he doesn't do many these days...
Fartlek question wrote:
Just wondering
Why wouldn't they??
according to that, Wilson Kipketer, Norredine Morcelli, and Paul Tergat all did Fartleks, and if you click on the article about El Guerrouj he did them as well.
Also Roger Bannister in the book he wrote about the four minute mile and many of his later interviews talked about how the basis of his training was fartlek
Ryan Hall does, just saw an interview where he talked about his runs before NYC and one of them was fartlek.
I'm super serial. Manbearpig.
My partner Farts and I Lek.
Overly serious runner wrote:
I do fartleks. My last one was 3-4-5-4-3 min @ about MaxVO2 effort with 2min rest between each rep. Was tough.
That´s an interval session.
A true fartlek has no predetermined pace or distance guidelines.
Just go pole to pole, block to block, random speeds, whatever.
Back in the day I would do a 5 mile fartlek run where I'd start at a semi-hard effort, we'll call it "marathon pace", for say 3-5 minutes...just down a long stretch of road, round the turn then into a sprint for a block, jog a block, repeat 3-5 times, job a couple blocks, then a 2-3 minute faster segment, we'll call it "half-marathon pace", jog a couple blocks, then go for what seems like about a minute hard, then back off, hard again, etc.
Just make it up. It makes you get in tune with your body and the effort and recovery it needs.
Alan
sometimes - it depends on how many dogs chase me in my run
I always considered it "intervals" if you knew the time AND the distance of the efforts. I caught myself doing that on my early "fartlek" runs - I'd time them starting from the same place each time, and get bummed if I didn't go as far on one day as on another. Then, as I got more tired as the weeks went by, I realized that my "fartleks" were really intervals and I was killing myself.
Even if both the time and distance of the hard parts aren't fixed, timing the rests is counter to the spirit of "speed play" (translation of fartlek).
idealist wrote:
Even if both the time and distance of the hard parts aren't fixed, timing the rests is counter to the spirit of "speed play" (translation of fartlek).
Your translation of fartlek is incorrect. The Swedish word "fart" means velocity. The Swedish word for "speed" is "snabbhet".
LR Swedish teacher wrote:
idealist wrote:Even if both the time and distance of the hard parts aren't fixed, timing the rests is counter to the spirit of "speed play" (translation of fartlek).
Your translation of fartlek is incorrect. The Swedish word "fart" means velocity. The Swedish word for "speed" is "snabbhet".
In that case I "velocity" all the time
fartlek is what serious athletes say they are doing when they really don't want to tell you what they are doing.
If you time it,
If you time the rest,
If you do the same course each week,
IT IS NOT FARTLEK... its just hiding an interval session.
The D1 school I am an alum of did. Mostly in the winter or summer, intervals during the season. 45 minutes of fartlek once every other week (during our afternoon run, typically after a 7am track workout of a tempo) was the norm during the 2.5 months of winter. Summer wasn't as structured.
Overly serious runner wrote:
I do fartleks. My last one was 3-4-5-4-3 min @ about MaxVO2 effort with 2min rest between each rep. Was tough.
The classical definition of fartlek is unstructured intervals. That looks to be pretty structured to me and thus not fartlek.
Nothing against the workout.
The Waterboy wrote:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~peterg1/run/aths.htmlaccording to that, Wilson Kipketer, Norredine Morcelli, and Paul Tergat all did Fartleks, and if you click on the article about El Guerrouj he did them as well.
Also Roger Bannister in the book he wrote about the four minute mile and many of his later interviews talked about how the basis of his training was fartlek
Unfortunately that link does not have Kipketer's real training, only the author's best guess.