Hey everyone. I'm usually very knowledgeable about anything running related. However, today someone said "barn run" to me. My original thought is that it is when you run the last however much (last half, last few miles) of a run at an increased effort. And just coming at the end of the run, therefor not qualifying as a fartlek.
Thank for the help!
If you take a horse out for a ride in the country it will naturally pick up the pace on the way home and the closer it gets to home, the faster it goes. Hence the expression "run to the barn".
Pretty much any animal that has a home "coop" has the tendency to do the same thing. Including us.
SMJO wrote:
If you take a horse out for a ride in the country it will naturally pick up the pace on the way home and the closer it gets to home, the faster it goes. Hence the expression "run to the barn".
Pretty much any animal that has a home "coop" has the tendency to do the same thing. Including us.
I knew what that meant before but I had never thought about it before. It's funny because if I run a loop with my dog she doesn't run that fast and if I try to run loopS, well, that doesn't happen.. she won't do it. But on out-n-backs she will sprint the whole way back.
That's because your dog isn't that smart. My dog does a loop once, and then knows how close it is to home, and will start picking it up at about 1.5-2 miles from home.