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<\/a><\/p>\nThis afternoon I ran up to St Hans hills to do hilly intervals.<\/p>\n
To be honest I do not like intervals because you give 100% and are exhausted when the interval is done but I also know\u00a0that intervals will make me faster so it is definately necessary for my next challenges this Fall.<\/p>\n
Not the best day to to this, the temperature was 27oC (81F) so I brought my energy belt with me with 2 bottles with water. Was not sure which running shoes I would use but decided at the end\u00a0to run in\u00a0my Altra Lone Peak 1.5 that is my new trail running shoe.<\/p>\n
I decided I would do 4 hills x 3<\/p>\n
Set 1:<\/strong> Long hill, middle hill, short hill and sledding hill<\/p>\n Set 2:<\/strong> Long hill with Mats’s ”m\u00f6rdar” variant, middle hill, short hill and sledding hill<\/p>\n Set 3:<\/strong>\u00a0 Long hill, middle hill, short hill and sledding hill<\/p>\n I would test another type of interval training, rest between each interval in each set would be based on pulse. When I got down to pulse 135 I would start the next interval.<\/p>\n So of course my pulse belt did not to be with me today.<\/p>\n So I started with warmup running around the top hill doing kick butt with feet, high knees and Indian jump and then I ran down to the first hill which is the worst one. It starts flat and get steeper and steeper and then the heat on top of that. Have I told you that I, running and heat, we are not friends?<\/p>\n At the top of each hill I drank some water and then ran down to the next starting point for the next interval. Decided to rest for 1 min and then ran up the middle hill. After that it was the short hill and rested for 30s and then the sledding hill and rested also for 30 s.<\/p>\n After each set I took a flat run around the circle hill back to the strating point of the long hill.<\/p>\n It was time for set 2, the long hill with the ”m\u00f6rdar” variant is brutal. Good with water is that you also can wet your hair and face when the heat hit you.<\/p>\n When I was on my way down to the short hill on set 3 the pulse belt had decided to be with me \ud83d\ude42 so now it was time to test the rest down to 135 before I ran each interval.<\/p>\n You still need to be a bit breathless between each interval and 135 seems to work for me. You decide what pulse you want to get down to.<\/p>\n After the last interval on set 3 the pulse belt had enough \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n It was nice running fast again, I have avoided any type of intervals or physical traning during spring due to my glutues problem that I needed to take care of before I started to run fast again. I will see if my knee will complain tomorrow or not.<\/p>\n The results from the interval training<\/p>\n