Fartlek

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This word amuses me because it's a piece of Swedish I'd not heard until recently (being half Swedish and bilingual that's a novelty), but more because it sounds really stupid when people speaking English say it. Teeheehee.

ANYWAY.

Having realised I can now jog (gently) a full 2 miles without stopping, I'm thinking I do my local route (2.6mi) a few more times normally to get used to it, and then start to turn it into a nice fartlek route.

It's all up and downhill anyway so I already have a nice variety going on - also it has a handy straight uphill section through a park which fits in well with the 200m uphill sprint from the sample session on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartlek

It starts from the blob at the bottom-left and goes clockwise. What do you think?

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Full size: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarawallen/4639280758/sizes/o/
 
How often you plan on doing this? How does it fit into the rest of your routine? Are you running 3 or 4 times a week continuous yet? If so you were told to report back when you could, well done :p

I'd only include one such session a week (I run 6 times a week). Then you want a nice & easy slow session the day after or rest to recover.
 
Blimey, demanding much? :P

Just so's you know, I have no marathon goals or anything like that, and am not planning to do more than I need to keep myself fit. I see fartlek as a way to make a run more interesting.

But yes agreed, I do need to get used to continuous running first. I'm currently doing 3ish runs a week, about 25-35 mins each, but have only just done one that isn't run/walk intervals. I was bored at work today hence the above :D
 
The main issue would be overdoing it and risking injury. I'd still work up to continuous running first.

No marathon goals.... you say that now, but who knows.
 
Oh yeah, I'm a bit ahead of the game - I'm not about to go mental on fartlek now as I'm barely out of learn-to-run walk/run intervals!

I'm just... geeking-out. Does it look like an OK fartlek circuit, as it stands - for me to go into once I'm settled into continuous runs?
 
sara said:
Oh yeah, I'm a bit ahead of the game - I'm not about to go mental on fartlek now as I'm barely out of learn-to-run walk/run intervals!

I'm just... geeking-out. Does it look like an OK fartlek circuit, as it stands - for me to go into once I'm settled into continuous runs?
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Plan looks OK for a bit of fartlekking.
 
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