It has some pretty steep hills though I’m not sure I can say this is a ‘hill run’ or a ‘hilly workout.’ The average ascent grade (It’s an out and back) is 4.7 and the max is 19.2.
I may have to do this again with the Edge rather than the Forerunner to get a more accurate barometric reading (the chart in the link is using the Motionbased correction).
When my running club does a specific ‘hill’ workout, we run up and down a relatively short hill (one minute of uphill, gain of 50 feet over an eigth of a mile and then back down again for maybe 6-8 repeats).
What does your ‘hill’ workout look like? Does my ‘bridge run’ linked above count as a hilly workout?
Bahhhh, that’s child’s play.
Here’s my favorite hill run profile. Do it once a week during summer at lunchtime.
It’s only a 5 mile run but that second mile’s a bitch.
BTW, good luck sunday at Shamrock. I saw your note about lunch but I think the family and I are supposed to be eating at my wife’s friends’. My kids are in the saturday 1 mile and 26 yard runs so I’ll be around most of saturday morning.
Hopefully I’ll run into you. I am hitting the expo tomorrow afternoon and probably just going to the movie theatre all day Saturday and eating stuff I don’t get to eat any other time.
My “hill” run is an elevation gain of about 300 ft in exactly 1 mile. I run up, and down for total of 6 miles. 3 up and 3 down. Trust me…the third is rather slow : )
My other runs are off road runs thru the mountains of Sedona. My fav trail run starts with a 100ft gain in the first 1/2 mile getting to the trail head…rolling for the next 20 minutes,…then gains another 200 ft around the back of Chimney Rock. After the rock the trail falls the 200 ft in about 1/4 mile (its more like stairs)…then it rolls for awhile til I’m off the trail, then the 100 ft down in 1/2 mile back to the house.
Also in Phoenix. We have another route that we would run too that was worse, but