Hill Days are to wear you out, so we call it a hard day.
Your workout:
Warm up well,
15 minutes of running, easy to moderate,
8 x 400-meter hill, jog down,
15 minutes of running, easy to moderate,
8 x 200 meters, on track or roads, good pace
15 minutes running, easy to moderate,
8 x 150 meters, on track or roads, good pace
15 minutes, moderate to easy,
Cooldown well,
hydrate,
get out of wet clothes,
recover,
Larry’s Deep Thoughts: We use hills and an early track session. I have been reading about how some coaches use the combination of efforts in a good workout. Ronnie Warhurst of the Very Nice Track Club, who coaches Hobbs Kessler and Morgan Beadlescomb, uses such methods. Let me know your thoughts!
Again, like all of our workouts, fine-tune them for your team. You could do 8 x 400 hill, 8 x 200m, 8 x 150m, and run 15-20 before an after. Shake it up!
Hobbs Kessler wins a superb 1,500m battle with Jake Wightman, photo by Kevin Morris, 2024 NB Indoor GP
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.
