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steep hill fitness
Something I definately lack! There seems a gradient past which running becomes ridiculously hard, and almost as slow as walking so you burn a lot of matches just to get to the top a few seconds quicker.
Arducius-
"For either running or walking, slopes between 20 and 35 degrees require nearly the same amount of energy to climb the hill at the same vertical velocity,” said Rodger Kram, an associate professor in CU-Boulder’s Department of Integrative Physiology and senior author of the study."
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I do a lot of walking up the steep bits. Everyone does. It was a massive relief to start racing and seeing everyone around me doing the same. I'm sure the front runners aren't walking, but there's enough people in front and behind me to make me feel ok about it!
fredtc
Nef
Aye - worth noting the pace tho! Took me over 2 hours. Even one of our strongest runners was doing 11 min/miles average for the hill session. And if you take out the warm up, the hill session is 800m over 10km, lol.
Need to get that steep hill fitness back - won't stand a chance in the Lakes or Scotland otherwise - and a session a week like that should do the trick!