Friday, March 19, 2010

The Thrill of Hills

I tried to come up with something more witty and even tried a couple of music themed blog titles, but "I found my Thrill on Blair Rd Hill" just didn’t do it and The Hills aren’t alive, I am feeling more so because of them, so the one above will just have to do.

This month the training plan has a necessary focus on hills. I am running the Around the Bay 30K at the end of the month and apparently there’s a challenging hill as a part of that course…dunno’ it will be my first time running this race.

It’s not like I have never run hills, I typically throw a hill or two into my long runs and to be quite honest, I have not really enjoyed them all that much. This month there have been a few hill repeat workouts as a part of the plan and I LOVE them!!

There’s just something about getting to the top of a challenging hill, recovering, making the descent and conquering that hill again…OK maybe conquering is a little strong, but that’s how it feels after you climb the same hill for the sixth time and you know from the first step up the incline that not only are you going to make it, but you’re going to be smiling and you’ll recover quickly on the flats and the cool down.

So if your future running plans have hills in them and you’ve been dreading them…take comfort in the fact that they are not that bad, in fact in my books, they are all GOOD! I’m looking forward to more…Hills, they’re not just for breakfast anymore!!
Watch for a post race blog in the first week of April and I'll let you know if the hill training paid off.