Thread title. I run a loop around my house and that's how much gain I get per mile.
Thread title. I run a loop around my house and that's how much gain I get per mile.
43/5280=0.8% gain
Two of the fastest/flatest major marathons...
Berlin: 1314/138336 = 0.95% gain
London: 1635/138336 = 1.18% gain
Your loop is naw hilly.
Naw wrote:
43/5280=0.8% gain
Two of the fastest/flatest major marathons...
Berlin: 1314/138336 = 0.95% gain
London: 1635/138336 = 1.18% gain
Your loop is naw hilly.
where did you get those 1314 and 1635 numbers? neither marathon has even 500' of elevation gain. heck, Boston only has 550'. I'd be London and Berlin have a couple hundred at most.
OP, 43' up and 43' down per mile is fairly hilly but not hilly enough to be considered hill training. that's an average grade of 1.63% either up or down. if you ran 70 miles on that loop in a week you'd hit 3000' of vert. Plenty for most people but not any kind of serious hills.
your stats for Berlin and London are very, very off. Like completely wrong.
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That's flat.
hillyornaw wrote:
Thread title. I run a loop around my house and that's how much gain I get per mile.
You have a corkscrew road around your house?
Don't look at me...I got those numbers from Strava. How do you reckon he measured 43ft gain?
hillyornaw wrote:
Thread title. I run a loop around my house and that's how much gain I get per mile.
No. Try running the 4 mile trail in Yosemite Valley. Did it once when there rock climbing. Close to 1000 ft of elevation change/mile. Now THATS hilly.