Running

This is for your Norwegian uphill race thing, I presume?

I haven't had a reply on FB yet from the guy. Should you be doing a fitness test at race pace and full distance? I would suspect that very few runners do that regularly and for good reason... Perhaps only do 80% distance?

Simple answer is I don't know what I am doing!

I know I can run a "conventional" half marathon in bang on 2 hours.

To be competitive next year I need to run up Dalsnibba in 2 hours- which is an average of around 8%.

So I was going to do the test (probably not at race pace) to check that I can do the distance at that gradient.

I can then train on the same gradient but doing 10k stints, 5k sprints etc.

That was my idea, anyway. It may be best to simply train until I can run 21km in an hour and a half on the flat and hope that the gradient will slow me down by half an hour, but "specificity" keeps popping up in my head- i.e. if I'm training to run up a mountain I should probably do that in training at least some of the time.