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Try this pro runner’s rust-busting workout for 2025

What better way to hit the ground running in 2025 than with an elite-level workout? A YouTube video posted by Track: All-Access on Tuesday revealed professional Puma runner Taylor Roe‘s first workout of the track season–a hefty session filled with fartlek intervals and mile repeats. Give the workout a go if you’re looking for a speedy way to start off a new year of running.

The workout

Set 1: 1,600m. Rest: 90 seconds

Set 2: 1,200m fartlek (4 x 200m, 100m jog)

Set 3: 1,600m. Rest: 2 mins

Set 4: 1,200m fartlek (4 x 200m, 100m jog)

Set 5: 1,600m

Total volume on track: 8,800m

Remember to take the session easier than a mid-season workout–be extra gentle while busting off the rust! Complete the mile repeats at around 5K pace, and take on the 200m portion of the fartlek at a solid effort–faster than the mile pace, but much slower than an all-out attempt. Since it’s the only rest portion of this set, take the 100m jog very easy.

“It’s too early to blow people up,” Puma Elite head coach Alistair Cragg said. “We want to keep everyone in it, working together.”

Roe completed the mile intervals in 5:24, 5:22 and 5:20. Her fartlek sets were around 4:08 (34 seconds for 200m, 28 seconds for easy 100m). “I’m clearly not doing well at pacing,” Roe said to the camera mid-workout. “But it’s not as bad as I thought it would be.”

Representing Oklahoma State University, the Washington state native won the NCAA 3,000m title in 2022 with a time of 8:58.95. She took silver in the 2024 NCAA 5,000m in March, finishing runner-up to Olympian Parker Valby. Roe holds 12 NCAA All-American honours from her five-year collegiate career and holds a 5,000m personal best of 15:15.01. The 24-year-old signed with the Puma Elite Running Team in July.

It’s not yet known when the athlete is set to open up her indoor season, but Cragg hinted that it will be won’t be until February. “You’ll blow yourself up,” he said to Roe. “We’re not going anywhere near blowing you up for the next–at least–four weeks.”

 

(01/03/2025) Views: 86 ⚡AMP
by Cameron Ormond
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