Where I live, my neighborhood is fairly hilly and my heart rate jumps when I run up hills. Where you live, are most streets flat or hilly?
Where I live, my neighborhood is fairly hilly and my heart rate jumps when I run up hills. Where you live, are most streets flat or hilly?
You're lucky to have somewhere hilly to train. I spent my early life with no choice but flat roads. Where I live is moderately hilly. If I want flat, mission bay is a 20 min drive. If I want to really test my mettle, I can be at a state park at altitude in 45 mins. Your heart rate will go up running steep hills, but sometimes it's best to just listen to your body and tune out the metrics.
Kvothe wrote:
You're lucky to have somewhere hilly to train. I spent my early life with no choice but flat roads. Where I live is moderately hilly. If I want flat, mission bay is a 20 min drive. If I want to really test my mettle, I can be at a state park at altitude in 45 mins. Your heart rate will go up running steep hills, but sometimes it's best to just listen to your body and tune out the metrics.
Does running on hilly terrain make your pace during your easy runs slower?
My street has 2 ways out of it to the main road. Both sides are around .4 miles and completely uphill so the start of all my runs suck. Pretty much my whole route is uphill downhill no matter where I go since that’s just how my town is
What do you think?
david45 wrote:
Kvothe wrote:
You're lucky to have somewhere hilly to train. I spent my early life with no choice but flat roads. Where I live is moderately hilly. If I want flat, mission bay is a 20 min drive. If I want to really test my mettle, I can be at a state park at altitude in 45 mins. Your heart rate will go up running steep hills, but sometimes it's best to just listen to your body and tune out the metrics.
Does running on hilly terrain make your pace during your easy runs slower?
Just go by effort, easy means easy. For you easy pace should be a effort you could run at for 2 hours without stopping, but not much longer.
I live in Central Kansas, so very flat.
128k wrote:
What do you think?
Shouldn't running downhill cancel out any timed gained by running uphill?
One summer I worked at a state park in college(did a few summer jobs at state parks actually). They gave me lodging off the main park road which was a 5 mile road at 10% grade. I trained on that road almost every day and was running better in Sept than I'd ever run living somewhere flatter. This despite my pace for easy runs, tempos, you name it being slower on average (downhills were flying). Just go by effort.
david45 wrote:
128k wrote:
What do you think?
Shouldn't running downhill cancel out any timed gained by running uphill?
No. Humans are not 100% efficient. You'll gain back a lot but not all the time. Just go by effort.
Long Time Lurker wrote:
david45 wrote:
Shouldn't running downhill cancel out any timed gained by running uphill?
And this is why you need to get a book on running so your wrong assumptions don’t make you an idiot
Then explain to me right now
No. On hill repeats, you jog back down. That doesn’t cancel out the work you did going uphill
david45 wrote:
Then explain to me right now
HA! To your disrespectful, uncoachable, self? And the audacity of your punk ass to demand something? Since you asked like that - no.
Anyways, the answer is already in this thread but you missed it with your "UCLA" worthy reading comprehension.
atlanta, so crazy hilly anywhere i go
david45 wrote:
Long Time Lurker wrote:
And this is why you need to get a book on running so your wrong assumptions don’t make you an idiot
Then explain to me right now
I think you'd learn a lot reading life at these speeds, Daniels running formula, and the perfect mile. 3 books - one novel, one book on training, one history. If you haven't started getting ahead on your course work for college, consider it a course in self improvement.
david45 wrote:
128k wrote:
What do you think?
Shouldn't running downhill cancel out any timed gained by running uphill?
This is a 6th grade math problem. David runs 5 mph on flat ground. Running uphill he goes 1 mph slower. Running down the same hill David goes 1 mph faster! David runs 5 miles away from his house uphill turns around and runs 5 miles downhill back home. The Brojos have David scheduled to start posting stupid running questions at 8pm. If he leaves for his run at 6pm will he be home in time?
Probably the most entitled sounding post you've produced on these boards thus far. Instant gratification, demanded no less. Think about your tone when you post. Everything comes off as whiny and when you face criticism, you ALWAYS attempt to justify it. Just be a little more cordial and people might respond better to you several daily queries.
david45 wrote:
128k wrote:
What do you think?
Shouldn't running downhill cancel out any timed gained by running uphill?
If you swing a pendulum, will it go back and forth forever? Is our body less or more efficient in maintaining energy like a pendulum?
128k wrote:
david45 wrote:
Shouldn't running downhill cancel out any timed gained by running uphill?
If you swing a pendulum, will it go back and forth forever? Is our body less or more efficient in maintaining energy like a pendulum?
1. No
2. Less efficient
Should we try to get this post deleted too? This is actually a pretty fun past time