Today’s Run: 3:37 miles speed work

Today on our morning run we decided to do speed work.  We used to do this once a week but got away from it due to training for various races and the need to get our miles in for endurance/distance.

In any good training program for runners, you will see something called fartleks.  This is a silly word for running repeats.  Sprints.  You set a distance and run like crazy then walk back to the start and do it again.  Repeats.  Fartleks.

Some people will use the distance between utility poles to mark off their distance but our poles are an uneven distance and plus there is a curve in the road that messes us up, so, we measure off 100 yards out in front of “Mamma’s House” (our neighbor) and our front yard.  Then we are off like a herd of turtles.

We ran one mile for a warm up then did twenty repeats.  That equaled out to our 3.37 miles distance today.  It does not sound like much but boy are you pooped when you are done!  We do our warm up, then three easy, three medium and three hard repeats then repeat until we reach twenty.  No problem!

This is what fartleks look like on a GPS running program.

Compliments of my Garmin Forerunner 305