Tried to run three times in the morning this week.
Mon: Blergh... Didn't manage to wake up at 05:30
Tue: Blergh... Woke up and then fell back to sleep at 05:30
Wed: Woke up and then lay there pondering running
I reckon by the end of the week I may actually get myself out of the door. Just not feeling it at the moment though.
I had similar this morning, I intended to go this morning for a 8ish miler, i filled my water bottle with caffeine drink. Woke up at half 5 feeling awake, thought great anther hour sleep, my alarm woke me up at half 6 and i felt like crap so turned it off and went back to sleep.
Went out in my lunch break with the intention to do 5ish instead, set off and felt fairly good, so decided to finally do a hill rep session. I've talked about it for ages, especially in this thread and never actually done it.
There's a decent hill around 0.8miles away that i've always planned to use. I decided on 10 reps. Although after 5 i cut the length as think it would've pushed me a bit much and i didn't want to tire myself out too much ahead of a longer run tomorrow.
Looking at the graphs it seems like a pretty ideal map. My HR recovers nicely on the downhill. If anything cutting the length was decent as it gives less recovery time.
The long sections give around 60ft of ascent over 0.15 miles and the shorter sections just under half that.
Think i'm going to try and add this in once a week. What's the best way to advance it? The hill does continue a bit further although it levels off a little. So i could either:-
1. Increase distance of each rep
2. Increase number of reps
3. Increase pace on the incline.
