We do hill workouts each week, on Thursdays. As you can see, it is a progressive workout, where we add more and more hill repeats and encourage you to focus on the uphill running.
Cross country courses in the US vary. Some are flat as pancakes, and some have hills that are legendary. Course like Manhattan Invite and Mt.SAC make careers. Learn how to run hills wisely.
Hill workouts can also take the place of speed work, especially when you are tired of track workouts. We will discuss that in another blog.
Thursday: Warmup, 1 mile, hill repeat, 5 repeats, 200 yards, uphill, 200 yards, jog downhill, 1 mile easy, cooldown. At bottom of hill, try four times 150 yards, jog back to the start. Keep the strideouts relaxed. Then, a nice cooldown.
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.
Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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