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Really appreciate that mate.Take all of this with a grain of salt, but 2km and 3km are what are generally used to assess fitness in footy players.
Normally in the off season it's 1-2 interval type sessions per week (Mona fartlek for example), 2 longer runs (usually longer and slower than a 5km).
I love 5km so I target that but it's to my detriment for footy.
I'd be tempted to go
• 1 X fartlek session per week
• 1 X sprint session, it's important to train for speed
• 1-2 long easy runs per week
They're both improving rapidly and that's as good a sign as you need that the work is paying off.
I'm a teacher so holidays on the horizon, hoping to stick to a routine.
Went for a '2km time trial' after the draft inspired us on Wednesday. 14yo punched out 8:56min so his new added goal is to shred that.
My goal is to shred my time from existence hahaha