Two sessions to improve your running - a brutally effective fartlek and a finely balanced threshold progression
That Triathlon Show
Mikael Eriksson
4.9 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, welcome back to that triathlon show for another minisode with some highlights |
| 0:04.9 | from the full episode that will be released this coming Thursday. |
| 0:08.3 | This Thursday we will have the third and final power rankings episode. |
| 0:12.3 | So Jack and I will both rank our top five run sessions for triathletes. |
| 0:17.8 | And what you'll hear today in this clip is two of these sessions. And then after that, |
| 0:22.8 | I'll talk briefly about some things that we didn't talk about in the main episode. I'll mention |
| 0:27.9 | a few things that are not sessions per se, but in my opinion, there are still essential components |
| 0:33.4 | of a run training program. And this, I think, is a good place to talk about them as they didn't make |
| 0:38.8 | an appearance in Thursday's episode but I think are still very very important but before that |
| 0:43.7 | let's hear this clip with my number five from the list and jack's number four and then we'll |
| 0:49.1 | come back with those those talking points after the clip from Thursday's episode. |
| 1:00.1 | Which leads me nicely to Maya number five, which is a fart leg session. |
| 1:03.9 | And this is, it has some recency bias to it, to be honest. |
| 1:08.0 | Very few of my athletes have seen it yet, but I have been experimenting with it personally. |
| 1:09.3 | And I really like this session. |
| 1:17.0 | I have to say, so my goal was to, I wanted to do some VO2 work and not just hill reps because that's something that I definitely do. That's what I did yesterday. My evening session was a VO2 hill rep on |
| 1:21.2 | the treadmill though. But I wanted to be able to do some faster running, but not so fast that I risk |
| 1:26.5 | injury, which I had some niggles and always had to manage that a bit. So I wanted to do some faster running, but not so fast that I risk injury, which I had some niggles |
| 1:28.6 | and always had to manage that a bit. So I wanted to use a kind of fart leg type session where |
| 1:34.8 | the active recoveries mean that you keep that oxygen uptake quite high without necessarily |
| 1:41.2 | having to go super fast in the intervals themselves. |
| 1:45.4 | So this session is based on that premise, |
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