Posted on Mar 06, 2010 under 10-15k, Hill Work, Long Runs, Milestones |
This was my longest run in 6 months. Set off slowly, for a planned 8 miles, and was struggling a bit at first as I went down Stockport Road and into Bredbury, having to tie my shoelace en route. Then I hit the uphill part of the course and just pushed myself to keep going. Then coasted off the hills on the flat and downhill bits and built up a real head of steam until the next hill, near the end. Slowed down a bit then and just jogged to the 8 mile point. Think I need a couple of rest days now to let my legs recover from the hard sessions lately.
Posted on Sep 06, 2009 under 10-15k, Hill Work, Regular Runs |
Pretty slow run with plenty of undulations, but felt fine throughout. Ran the reverse route up through Hyde over the hills then back up Stockport Road. Nice easy pace but didn’t feel the hills were too hard and recovered very quickly for an enjoyable run. Lower left leg seems to have a bit of pain on impact, but been there for a bit so just need to be careful with up and coming 3 races in a row.
Posted on May 24, 2009 under 10-15k, Hill Work, Long Runs |
Very nice longish run in the sun, and hilly too – uphill most of the way in fact, and maintained same pace as on my last 8 mile run, so not bad at all – but felt a deserved the last 2 miles cruising downhill on the route I planned (followed at the end by a very steep incline which killed my legs in the end!)
Posted on Apr 01, 2009 under 5-10k, Hill Work |
Last batch of hill work before my next race – want those legs to be fresh! My natural pace seems to be just under 55 minute 10k pace when not pushing – about 5:25 per k is what I run when not trying to run slowly or quickly but just naturally. Anyway, warmup k was at that pace, then powered up steep part of Stockport Road before maintaining pace on the long “gentle” climb up. That got my heart pumping, although that k was the fastest I think – came back down the hill gently then powered up again, thought about doing a third rep but my back was twinging a bit and my left thigh has been a bit achey lately so thought 6k would do and best not to risk any kind of injury.
Splits:
5:23
5:40
5:36 (uphill)
5:37
5:40 (uphill)
5:22 (flat)
Average pace 5:34/k
Half a minute quicker than my last hill session on that route, so a little bit of improvement which should translate to an extra bit of pace on the flat 
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 under 5-10k, Hill Work |
First session of hill work since my return to running. Did the usual up and down Stockport Road route and the uphill bits were murder as usual, but felt good and not overloaded – didn’t attack to much with it being first session will aim to build up slowly. Only a minute slower than the 6k yesterday and with half of it uphill!
Splits:
5:21
5:38
5:54
5:29
6:02
5:29
Average pace 5:39/k
Posted on Sep 11, 2008 under 10k, Hill Work |
Seeing as my next 10k is described as “undulating” I thought I’d better put in some hill work.
Weather cold to start off with, but sun came out about half way – went off quite slowly, 2nd k downhill was quick, then the hard hill reps began! Felt I went quicker up the hill than last time I did this routine, of course it hurt going up the hill but I held it together and even went for a fourth lap, but ended up only going half way down and back up the hill again (less severe incline at the top) as I could tell I was getting pretty tired – still managed to put on a little burst at the end until slowly jogging down to the 10k mark.
Posted on Aug 21, 2008 under 5-10k, Hill Work |
First time I’ve tried to do some hill work – having experienced hills both at the beginning and end of races, I’ve learned that I much prefer them near the end – but thought it would be a good idea to prepare for any hill races might throw at me, while at the same time building up speed and endurance.
I started off with a 1k jog on the flat and down Stockport Road, then ran back up – up and down about a k each, so did 3 reps of this plus another k cool down. No idea how steep the hill is, but it starts off very steep and then gently rises over the course of 1k – takes it out of the legs the first half!
Really felt it doing me good, and running 8k with 3 of them pushing uphill was a good workout
