Hills, those horrible hills... 6 Miles approx
Tonight I ran with Rob And Nigel, 'the Yawning Gorilla', from the Soll Leisure's Gillots Gym. We ran hill repetitions up Woodlands Road, a medium gradient hill, in my blue NB 832's as below:15 min warm up
6x 1 minute hill
6x 30 seconds hill
6x 15 seconds hill
Walk/jog down recovery. No rest bettween sets.
15 min warm down
6x 1 minute hill
6x 30 seconds hill
6x 15 seconds hill
Walk/jog down recovery. No rest bettween sets.
15 min warm down
This was followed by a brief gym session, as below:
3x10 Bench press 32kg Dumbell
3x10 Seated Row 50kg
32 Press Ups in 1 minute
3? Sit Ups in 1 minute
3x10 Seated Row 50kg
32 Press Ups in 1 minute
3? Sit Ups in 1 minute
All in all, the session was lung-searingly tough. The most difficult part for me were the 15 second sprints, as they were quite technical (well, for me) and its the sort of work I normally avoid. I can see a place in my schedule for bi-weekly hill sessions though, mainly based around minute reps. My quads, shins, calfs & hamstrings certainly felt the work afterwards (so thats all the major leg muscles then!). The cooldown jog felt suprisingly 'bouncy' though. On this topic, I noticed that even when sprinting up hill, my arm carriage remained outstandingly low, and I wasn't reaching forward with my arm-swing as much. Looks like I've made my ideal arm carriage a chronic complaint, I cant even pump my arms when I want to now!
The gym session afterwards was somewhat dissapointing. I'm horribly suprised at just how weak I've become over the last few years. Guess I'm going to have to integrate circuits/conditioning into my training again, if at some point I feel this needs rectifying. Im not sold on the importance of upper-body strength yet though.
I've also heard third hand that 'The Prolific Ed Dodwell'©, mighty male vet & Lord of the realm (or something like that) may be joining us for some of our runs. Good-oh! It seems that everytime a new recruit joins our group, the speed sessions get more severe, which can only be a good thing!
Some quotes from last night for you, I let you guess from who's mouth they sprung from...
"I'm not looking for nice training partners, just fast ones..."
"I don't want to see her yawning gorilla!"
"Can this be natural?"
"Sh1te, this is bl00dy sh1te..."
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"I don't want to see her yawning gorilla!"
"Can this be natural?"
"Sh1te, this is bl00dy sh1te..."
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