Doing hill repeats for rapid return for fitness

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I’m not seeing any downside here. Unless you are thinking more than twice/week? I had almost exact same scenario. Broke my toe in 3 places, no running for 9 weeks, needed (wanted) to prep for a 1/2 and only had 7 weeks. Did 2 hilly runs each week of 6 miles and tho I suffered those first few weeks, I felt the hillwork jumpstarted my return to fitness.

YO OP What kind of injury was it. If it was a knee injury involving the quads youz better b careful dawg

Hills are not 'magic' but you can't go wrong them. (unless you just completely overdue it).

I moved from an area that was hilly so I was grew used to running hills 3 - 5 days a week. I now live in a very flat area and feel I have lost some fitness due to that. I need to seek out some hills and get back into it.

Hill repeats (any length): very good

another idea - JHS/middle-school standby workout: fast 100 on the straights jog the 100 curves - if no track then do telephone poles, blocks, 20sec on 40sec off, whatever

The hills really get the heartrate going, and will get your legs strong again. The super short intervals will be good for HR as well as economy.

But, as others have said, what you do will need to depend on what your injury was.

Just be careful going *downhill*--especially steep downhills. Those are Injury City.

Hence if you have access to a treadmill that you can elevate, that's a great way to get "hill" work without getting busted up on downhills.

If you don't have access to a treadmill, or just want to be outside, then *take it easy* on those downhills, that's all.

I got a stress reaction along my fibula, never got any sharp pain but lots of numbness and weakness in my leg. It's been about 13 weeks since i initially got the injury. I've been running the past 4 weeks very gradually increasing miles. Im up to 30mpw, i was averaging 60 to 65 mpw when i got the injury. Injury came on after starting up too much track work but not cutting back my base mileage. (I worked up from 40/45 mpw to 60/65mpw for summer base. Which yeah i know isn't crazy, was hoping to get near 70 to 80mpw next summer)

I have a goal race in early January (half marathon) and need to get back some fitness or i might have to scratch my race. I'm already building back up my long runs.

I was gonna do these 3 minute hill repeats two or three times a week. I know it's gonna suck. Just wanted to know if it's a worth while method or a waste of time trying to get to 80/90% preinjury fitness back in such a short time. I really appreciate all the respones.

For me a very rapid fitness boost is to do a short tempo run on a hilly course and run a little extra hard on the uphills. That will will make the workout sort of tempo/fartlek hybrid.