MFR 154: Fun With Fartlek Training
Mojo For Running Podcast
debbie voiles
4.9 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Any runner or group of runners, of any level, can make up a fartlek workout on the fly, or pull out one of the traditional, time-tested fartlek workouts. Fartleks are especially good for injecting a bit of speed work into an easy or long-ish run during the basebuilding phase when it's best to avoid more structured, specific track workouts, saving them for later in the cycle when the speedwork needs to be more specific, more race oriented.
This matters because from a psychological perspective, runners will benefit from more carefree, less structured running, fun running, but they still don't want to lose their edge by foregoing all speed work. Enter, fartleks, the perfect means of holding onto speed without going to a track.
RunGasparilla.com/name-the-parrot-contest
Gear/equipment mentioned:
Gymboss (wearable interval timer)
Simple Interval Timer (iphone app)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Debbie Boyle's coach at Mojo for Running with episode number 154, fun with fartlic training. |
| 0:17.4 | Now, if you've never heard the word before, you may be straining to figure out exactly what that |
| 0:23.3 | word was, fartlicks, and wondering why you've never heard it. It almost never fails to elicit |
| 0:29.3 | chuckles from non-runners or newer runners because, well, the first four letters spell fart. |
| 0:35.0 | But no worries, fartlic is a running term that has a zero to do with bodily |
| 0:39.5 | functions. So you need to hit your stop button. On the contrary, if you've never done fartlics |
| 0:45.5 | and don't know about them, you're in for a treat because they provide a fun way to vary any workout |
| 0:52.2 | for any runner of any level. Before we get to that, I want to talk to you |
| 0:57.4 | about a parrot, the Gasparilla parrot. If you live in the Tampa Bay area, then you know what I'm |
| 1:02.9 | talking about. But if you don't, I'll explain. You've likely heard me talk about the Gasperla |
| 1:08.3 | Distance Classic, a weekend of running, February 26th and 27th this |
| 1:13.3 | year. That includes four races. It's the cornerstone of our racing season, and by hour, I mean |
| 1:19.5 | run tampas. And I encourage anyone who can get away for that weekend to come and see for yourself, |
| 1:25.3 | and what a great way for me to get to meet some of my |
| 1:28.2 | listeners. I always have a run Tampa booth at the expo, so you'll know where to find me. Anyway, |
| 1:34.5 | this year, the most colorful member of the Gasparilla Distance Classic pirate crew, the parrot, |
| 1:40.1 | is looking for a name, and you might be just the person to think of the perfect name. |
| 1:45.8 | The contest runs throughout October. I know, that's a terrible pun. Sorry, not sorry. Just go to |
| 1:53.5 | their website, run Gasparilla.com forward slash name the parrot contest to enter to name the parrot. There's a hyphen between each of those |
| 2:03.1 | words after the slash. So run gasperella.com forward slash name hyphen the hyphen parrot hyphen |
| 2:09.5 | contest. Of course, I'll put the link in the show notes. The winner, the one who names the parrot, |
| 2:15.9 | will get to run free for the next 25 years and will receive a $100 |
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