Three Fartlek Sessions to Take Your Running to the Next Level

For beginner, intermediate and advanced runners.

Amy J. Wall
Runner's Life
Published in
4 min readJun 25, 2021

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Runners of all distances and levels benefit from running fartlek sessions. Fartlek is Swedish for speed play. A gentle form of speedwork, they help to improve speed endurance, which is the ability to run faster and maintain speed over a longer distance.

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Amy J. Wall
Runner's Life

All American & ranked 1500 meter masters runner. SDSU XC/Track alum. Write about running, health & well-being. Editor at Runner’s Life. amywallauthor.com