How do you get in 35 minutes of hill running in a 55 minute run? Have some fun. One of my faves was 10 times 3 minutes up hill, with 2 minutes easy in between each hill charge, followed by a 5 minute uphill run, then a cool down.
Or, you could just warm up ten minutes and find some god awful hills to test your strength and stamina, and then jog home the last 15 minutes.
Hills are the secret sauce. Sprinters, hurdlers, middle distance runners all get it!
In these shoes, Emil Zatopek raced in 1953. In 1952, he won the 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, something that will never be seen again, photo by adidas Communications. Emil Zatopek loved hills.
Thursday: warm-up, run in the hills, get in 35 minutes in your 55 minute run of hill running, cooldown.
2021 RunBlogRun, week # 3, Summer mileage, day 4
Monday: light run, 40 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.
Tuesday: warm-up, relaxed 50-55 minute run in the hills, enjoy the day, cooldown.
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Wednesday: light run, 40 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m light cooldown.
Thursday: warm-up, run in the hills, get in 35 minutes in your 55 minute run of hill running, cooldown.
Friday: light run, 40 minutes easy pace, stretch, 4 x 150 m stride-outs, light cooldown.
Saturday: warm-up, 50 minute run in a park, moderate pace, with ten minute hilly run during run, cooldown
Sunday: Long run, 60-65 minutes, at a conversational pace
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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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