Hills

I have gone a bit 'off plan' with my intervals the last couple of weeks - and today was no exception.

I decided I didn't really fancy what was on the schedule (6 x 1200m), but that what I wanted to do was hills!

I know - never before have I said that, but today I decided that was what was required.

So, I trotted off (3.7km) to the hill I had in mind, and then I ran up it and then jogged back down it 12 times in all!

It was quite tough, and I'm sure the residents of the street I was on thought I was a bit bonkers - but who cares?

I split the session it into 3 sets of 4 repetitions - and after every set I had a walking rest interval, but in between all the other repetitions I jogged. The last rep of each set was the killer - my legs just didn't feel like moving me - but I did it, and was pretty consistent time wise for each one as well.

A job well done - and it did create a great looking graph on my running gadget (red is altitude, blue is speed).

The hill turned out to be 300m worth of running - so not quite as far as I thought, but at the time it was plenty, especially as I had another 4.3km to run home - taking in another hill on the way :)

It was just that kind of day!