#16 – 50 runs in 100 days – Just run edition

This is my first resting week before my ultra race June 11th but I saw an interesting hilly interval training in Runner’s World that I wanted to test and then I had to do it in the beginning of this week so my legs will be enough rested before the race.

Biked to the gym after work and here is the training

15 min warm up (ran 2K), started with 6 min/k but since I try to not go over my threshold pulse I had to decrease the pace during warmup

After that

500m interval                                  2.5% incline
1 min rest
500m interval                                  3.0% incline
1 min rest
500m interval                                  3.5% incline
1 min rest
500m interval                                  4.0% incline
1 min rest
500m interval                                  4.5% incline
1 min rest
500m interval                                  5.0% incline
1 min rest
500m interval                                  5.5% incline
1 min rest
500m interval                                  6.0% incline
1 min rest
500m interval                                  6.5% incline
1 min rest
500m interval                                  7.0% incline

During the rest I was standing, after the second rest I realized that this treadmill had paused. Grrrr, do not like that type of treadmill so then I had to move my running shoes on the treadmill a little during the rest

10 min cool down

Interesting exercise but I had to tune some more, at some interval I got to 163 in pulse, my threshold pulse is 160. It got tough at the end. It would have been nice with some breeze 🙂

Distance: approximately 8K