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  • This year, Marisa introduced us to ab work, fartleks, hills that rivaled what a person seeking to climb Mount Everest might do, and a particularly evil concept known as a “progression” run where we were told to pick up speed throughout the run, ending with an all-out sprint.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • This year, Marisa introduced us to ab work, fartleks, hills that rivaled what a person seeking to climb Mount Everest might do, and a particularly evil concept known as a “progression” run where we were told to pick up speed throughout the run, ending with an all-out sprint.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • They sprinted down the track doing fartleks—sprinting forty yards, jogging twenty yards, sprinting forty more, jogging twenty.

    Shooting Star Fredrick McKissack Jr. 2009

  • They sprinted down the track doing fartleks—sprinting forty yards, jogging twenty yards, sprinting forty more, jogging twenty.

    Shooting Star Fredrick McKissack Jr. 2009

  • They sprinted down the track doing fartleks—sprinting forty yards, jogging twenty yards, sprinting forty more, jogging twenty.

    Shooting Star Fredrick McKissack Jr. 2009

  • They sprinted down the track doing fartleks—sprinting forty yards, jogging twenty yards, sprinting forty more, jogging twenty.

    Shooting Star Fredrick McKissack Jr. 2009

  • 4. Parker includes a lot of running terminology—fartleks, for example.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

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