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one thing to remember when adding in hills, occasionaly train going down as well, we used to use the downhill as recovery and noticed that in races where there was a hill we'd make up 10 places on the uphill and lose 8 on the down as mentally and technique wise the uphill was attack and the downhill recovery!!
Forgotten where I originally read this, but I don't think the large increase in intensity when attacking uphill gives you much of a difference in uphill speed, whereas if you take it steady and then recover/let the legs 'loose' on the descent, it'll give you a much greater difference in speed to other runners. You just have to be good at running fast downhill I suppose.
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I think if you want to run fast you need to avoid hills in racing, I doubt there are many people who go faster on a hilly course.
one thing to remember when adding in hills, occasionaly train going down as well, we used to use the downhill as recovery and noticed that in races where there was a hill we'd make up 10 places on the uphill and lose 8 on the down as mentally and technique wise the uphill was attack and the downhill recovery!!