To Nobby"That's interesting... But I guess it could happen. After weeks and weeks of long relatively slow running, what hill training would do is to bring "power and flexibility" in your strides. Your mechanics should improve; you should have more "push" in your take-off; you're bringing your knees up higher so your stride length should naturally improve... All these should add up and it is not uncommon to see someone start to run regular training runs almost full minute per mile faster. But I guess if you already have all those elements developed, and if you do uphill running regularly enough; you may get to the point where you just don't improve any more."
That is why I do train in the hill,so that I can gain power, my old coach could say
"Henry Rono can stay any where in the race either in front,middle,or behind still has the power to win the race he is so flexable to take off at any point to win"That is what the hill gives you.One of my athlete ask me
"How do you get speed? Perhaps climbing the hill may look as grandy pace, you name it.You will nail all your PRs you have to better times.
Henry
Henry