#36 – Transport to St Hans hills
#37 – Hilly intervals
#38 – Transport back to home

The original plan was to do pulse based intervals but since my pulse belt was not my friend yesterday (did not want to be found or paired) I decided that if my pulse belt did not want to be my friend I would do hilly intervals.

Turned out to be train chaos on my way home from work and made a decision that I would do hilly intervals independently if the pulse belt would be my friend or not.

Warm so I decided to wear shorts and linnen, mandatory waterbelt with 2 water bottles and my flip belt, regular running shoes.

Decided to divide the running in three runs to see if the transport before and after would differ much and see how the hilly intervals went.

Ran up to St Hans hills, and then got ready for those hilly intervals.

First interval was tough, heavy breathing at the top, the hill is approximately 500 m. Stayed on the top til my breathing was more normal. I was wonder how the couple who had a good time up there felt when I came up and was walking around breathing heavily 🙂 Not a good place to choose when a lot of runners do hilly training on this particular hill.

Then down again, I planned to stay at the start til I got down to 118 (heart rate) but when I got to 125 I felt fine.

Did my second interval which also was tough, saw that a group of girls had training at the top and was wondering if they were soccer girls. One of them even got a ride to the beginning of the top hill and she is a athlete?

Heavy breathing again at the top and when the breathing felt better I ran down to the start and waited til around 125.

The third interval did not feel as tough as the first two.

The fourth did not feel as bad either and when I got to the start those girls was passing me, I cheered one one, felt she needed it, some girls started walking and I could not help my self, do not cheat, they thanked me I pepped them, I asked them if they were soccer girls but there were handball girls and I said why are you walking, you run in your sport.

So on my fifth interval I had to show them I was a runner so I pushed it and that was the worse one.

Hilly intervals or intervals based on pace are the worst but I do it. I really need a lot more hilly training this year since I am going to run the ”Double Death” in November

Distance: 2 x 22 km = 44 km
Altimeter: approximately 2000 m

Then it was time to head home

On my way home I passed a mom and her daugther who had down’s syndrome and she was so glad walking at the side of her wheel chair and when she saw me she waved and clapped her hands and gave me high five, that made my evening, such cheerful child.

Transport to St Hans hills –  Distance: 1.64K, time: 10.47.8 min, average heart rate: 141, average pace: 6.33 min/k, max pace: 5.57 min/k

Transport from St Hans hills –  Distance: 1.65K, time: 10.44.6 min, average heart rate: 154, average pace: 6.29 min/k, max pace: 5.34 min/k

Hilly intervals – Distance: 4.74K, time: 42.49.6 min, average heart rate: 147, average pace: 9.02 min/k, max pace: 4.25 min/k, cadence: 164, VO2 Max: 32 ml/kg/min