Brent Demerest, FL 2012,
Hill workouts are an important part of your summer and fall training. Some athletes use hill work instead of track work. Lasse Viren, the 1972 and 1976 double gold medalist at 5,000m and 10,000m, would do hill repeats instead of track work most of the year.
This workout is pretty simple, warm up, run the hill repeats strongly, pumping your arms, shortening your stride and jog easy down, and repeat. This workout will get progressively harder later in the season.
Thursday: Warmup, 1 mile, hill repeat, 2 repeats, 200 yards, uphill, 200 yards, jog downhill, 1 mile easy, cooldown.
The idea with this workout is to get used to running uphill efficiently. If you want to do something afterwards, lengthen your 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.
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