How do you guys do it!?!?
I signed up for a mountain race thinking it'd be something fun and different. Nope. Mountain running is ridiculous.
Your heart rate spikes and stays crazy going up. Heart rate drops rapidly as you decend while crushing your legs. Up and down. Up and down.
Training has been brutal. How do you guys manage.
Mountain running is a completely different type of running, meaning you'll have to put in a significant amount of time to get over that beginner's hump.
But the great thing is that once you're in good mountain shape you become an entirely different animal (I started dunking a basketball at age 27 after a year running in the mountains), and IMO, mountains are far more enjoyable than flat running. Just make sure you are taking downhills easy in the majority of your training.
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