...I need to start doing Farleks. I emailed him today and asked him for some training recommendations and he said, "You need to do one hard run, one interval
Day (600's and 400's). One fartlek day, where you would do a four mile
run with sprints of about 200 meters every 3/4ths mile. no stopping
aloud between sprints. two easy days."
This is beginning to make sense to me because I am finding that I can't put in more than a couple of hard days each week without it taking a huge toll. I feel completely spent; even on an easy run. With sprinting I never seemed to have any problem with this but distance really seems to be a completely different animal. It's just so unnatural to give myself an "easy day."
Today I intended to run a medium 5 miles but ended up doing 2.51 with a break and then 2.01 with a half-mile walk for a cool-down.
2.51 - 21:05 (8:24/mile)
2.01 - 16.24 (8:09/mile)
totals: 4.52 - 37:29 (8:17)
Mike
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