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Originally Posted by Alan T
Hill repeats and long hill repeats generally have you running like 1/10th or 1/8th of a mile for short hill repeats to 1/3 of a mile for long hill repeats at roughly your 5k or 10k pace. ( So pretty fast for a climb). Some people do longer hill repeats of 1/2 mile or even a mile but at a slightly slower pace. It basically works like intervals though where the goal is to have high effort on the pace in the interval part.
The rest in between the intervals is solely for decreasing your heart rate to be ready for the next interval. You don't need to run/jog/whatever at any certain pace there. You simply want your HR back down to be ready for your next repeat.
Most people I know either jog slowly down the hill or even walk down the hill before the next one.
DC Rainmaker had a blog entry a while back where he was doing 1 mile hill repeats and planned it out to run on a hill between two bike share locations in paris. He would run up the hill, check out a bike and ride the bike back down the hill to the other station to check it in and then do the hill repeat again, pick up another bike and ride back down, etc.  |
So, this newfound hill is pretty versatile for me then? I can do short hill repeats (partway up) and long hills (the entire 1/2 mile stretch) on the same course? Cool!