Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode, podcast and YouTube video of Up-Tempo Talks.

This is Coach Dylan Bellis.

This is Coach Rory Wannigan.

And today we are going to be talking to you

about Fartlic running. What exactly is a

farlic and what are some examples of them and how can we apply them in practice.

So Roy if you don't mind we kick us off and tell us what exactly is this weird term that we call a farlic.

Sure thing.

I used to be an English teacher, so I like the etymology of words.

Farlake is a Swedish word. It literally translates to speed play and I guess the way I remember at least when I was a high school runner, our coach would have us do kind of a surrounding fart like.

Or essentially we'd be running in a group of runners based on ability and each runner

would get a chance to pick the landmark that we would run to and it could be at 5K pace.

We'd run to that landmark. Then we jog rest and then the next person in our little group would say,

all right, we're going to run through that light pole.

So the truest sense of the word in terms of speed play

would be a very unstructured workout

where you're going to have varying speeds.

What sets this apart from other workouts is that the recovery has to be jogging at the very least and we're going to talk about some options today where the jog recovery in between can be at a very pace. So yeah, you want to add on to that?

Sure. Yeah, so the Fartlic sessions are actually my favorite type of workout, especially now that I'm training for the marathon

distance. It's something that I can accumulate a lot of volume within each day and each workout in. So I basically break it down into these smaller

bite-sized chunks. Again, working faster the marathon pace for some of the ons and then slower

the marathon pace for some of the offs. And so it's just this balance of just this

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