Teaching Fartleks
Being a running coach has so many positive side effects. One is that it forces me to do things that even I don’t like. Today I taught my 55 year old newbie running client what a fartlek was.
We’ve been running together for about a year and so far a 10k is the most strenuous thing he’s ever done in his life. We actually discussed this fact again today. He was telling me how good he felt afterwards.
It was one of the nicest days we’ve have in Atlanta so far this season.
Fartlek - very fast running mixed with slower running.
It was awesome explaining this to him as he was doing it. It was even more fun pronouncing the word over and over again until in this oxygen deprived state he finally laughed so hard he double over because he heard FART (55 year old male)
Check out that max pace, we were hauling balls!