WARNING: some people might find this offensive - I think it's funny.
Keep reading and you'll eventually get to the stuff that's associated with cycling.
I was talking to my Dad while in Bakersfield and telling him about how when I ride I will usually pick a pace for the ride. One ride will just be a joy slow ride, or maybe an all out ride. Sometimes or most of the time somewhere in the middle is the pace I take becuase I don't like to kill myself. My dad brought up the word FARTLEK and being me I missheard him, "Fartlick? What? Fartleak?! WHAT!!?? What are you talking about Dad?" even though I knew very well he was not talking about flatulence. Today I am going to delve into the world of gas becuase I've been wanting to do a short post about Fartlek and it got me thinking about the meanings of the words which I missheard. Here's what I've come up with.
Fartleak - the unapparent release of gas or simply the silent fart sometimes known as the SBD (silent but deadly) fart.
Fartlip - the anus
Fartlick - the unfortunate event of opening your mouth and getting a taste while in a cloud of someones (maybe your own) fart.
Fartlink - the meeting or coliding place of two or more farts.
Now for Fartlek - Speed play is its translation from Swedish. It is basically a form of training or excersizing utilizing randomly timed intervals with varying speeds and distances. My Dad is into running so he brought up how when the Kenyans took over the running world they utilized Fartlek in their racing. Kenyans used this technique of randomly running faster and slower to confuse the competition and they did confuse and they won... and well still win with relative regularity. Fartlek was developed by a Swedish coach Gosta Holmer in 1937 so it's definately not a new idea. He came up with the idea because he was tired of losing to the Finns. I don't want to go any deeper into the history becuase to me it's a new idea of how to train and I like the idea. Fartlek can be applied to pretty much any sport and for me that sport will be cycling. So the next time you go for a ride remember Farts... that is Fartlek and sprint at a random spot or go slow and do some quick "breakaways" and spice up that ride.
Keep reading and you'll eventually get to the stuff that's associated with cycling.
I was talking to my Dad while in Bakersfield and telling him about how when I ride I will usually pick a pace for the ride. One ride will just be a joy slow ride, or maybe an all out ride. Sometimes or most of the time somewhere in the middle is the pace I take becuase I don't like to kill myself. My dad brought up the word FARTLEK and being me I missheard him, "Fartlick? What? Fartleak?! WHAT!!?? What are you talking about Dad?" even though I knew very well he was not talking about flatulence. Today I am going to delve into the world of gas becuase I've been wanting to do a short post about Fartlek and it got me thinking about the meanings of the words which I missheard. Here's what I've come up with.
Fartleak - the unapparent release of gas or simply the silent fart sometimes known as the SBD (silent but deadly) fart.
Fartlip - the anus
Fartlick - the unfortunate event of opening your mouth and getting a taste while in a cloud of someones (maybe your own) fart.
Fartlink - the meeting or coliding place of two or more farts.
Now for Fartlek - Speed play is its translation from Swedish. It is basically a form of training or excersizing utilizing randomly timed intervals with varying speeds and distances. My Dad is into running so he brought up how when the Kenyans took over the running world they utilized Fartlek in their racing. Kenyans used this technique of randomly running faster and slower to confuse the competition and they did confuse and they won... and well still win with relative regularity. Fartlek was developed by a Swedish coach Gosta Holmer in 1937 so it's definately not a new idea. He came up with the idea because he was tired of losing to the Finns. I don't want to go any deeper into the history becuase to me it's a new idea of how to train and I like the idea. Fartlek can be applied to pretty much any sport and for me that sport will be cycling. So the next time you go for a ride remember Farts... that is Fartlek and sprint at a random spot or go slow and do some quick "breakaways" and spice up that ride.
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