Giant Treadmill Hill Workout
| November 19, 2012 | Posted by Madeline @ Food, Fitness, and Family under Running, Treadmill |
I hope you guys had a great weekend! We were pretty low key and spent most of it letting Emmalyne recover from whatever bug she had last week. It is no fun dealing with a sick baby 
Luckily I am happy to report that she seems to be doing MUCH better. Her fever broke Friday night, she slept a lot Saturday, and was a tad cranky yesterday but definitely on the mend. Thank you for all your kind words and well wishes. We felt them!
Any-who, since moving to Savannah in April my running has changed. How you ask? In Missouri I was constantly running hills. Anyone who has lived by the Lake of the Ozarks or Fort Leonard Wood can attest that there are rolling hills everywhere. No matter where I ran there would be TONS of hills. Here in Savannah? Nary a hill to be seen. While I totally love the flat terrain and the speed I feel when I run, I also know that not everywhere is this amazing. Case and point? The Augusta Half Marathon elevation chart:
Do you see what happens between miles 4-5?!?! Thats a mile long uphill … aka death to Madeline’s legs. Since the Augusta Half is my next big race I have taken matters into my own hands for training. While I would love to be able to go run the Savannah Bridge every weekend, I just can’t. Therefore, I have to make my own hills using the treadmill. This is the workout I have been doing:
So far this is working for me. I am honestly pretty winded at the end of the uphill portion. Since I just started using it I am hoping that I get used to it ASAP. Either way I know it’ll be good practice before conquering that monster (to me) hill in the race.
How do you train for hilly races? Any good workouts you suggest?
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IM SO SO SO GLAD Emmalyne is better and the fever is gone!
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I’m going to blame it on being a fairly newbie runner but I run away from hills still, not toward them!
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Luckily I live in a very hilly area so I can train for hills pretty easily…but hills on the treadmill are always a tough beast to conquer. This workout looks killer!
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Yay for E feeling better! I live in very flat Chi-town so there’s lots of hillwork happening on the mill. I also have one (haha!) hill I go to for repeats. No fun, but very necessary! Thanks for the workout!
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Great workout! I am always looking for a good treadmill workout since I don’t have any hills at all in Ohio! Lol.
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I just kinda avoid hills if I can
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Why in the world would I want to MAKE a hill?! They kill me!
So glad Emmie is feeling better!
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Haha you and me both girl but I don’t want the one in Augusta to actually do me in haha.
Oh my goodness, I’d be in for a world of wake up calls if I moved there! Here in central Illinois we’ve got good ol’ flat roads
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Same down here. Missouri about killed me but here is pancake flat.
The leader of my old running group used to say that hill runs are strength training for runners.
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The same thing happened to me when we moved to Texas a year ago… it’s pancake flat here! I really need to incorporate a hill workout like yours. Thanks for sharing!
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When we lived at Fort Hood there was a little area with hills but we were kind of in the hill country a bit. Still pretty darn flat though!
Whew. Glad your baby girl is all better. That is no fun. And I walk a big hill near me, and I hate it. First I traverse it, then I go back down and go straight up.
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Me too! And that sounds like a great workout
There’s definitely something going around! I’ve had a cold for two weeks and I’m only getting better now!
So happy to hear your little one is doing better
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I love this hill workout! I am always looking for workouts more like this one, as I love hills (crazy I know!) The workouts that strictly focus on speed just don’t do it for me
Thanks for posting, I will be trying this out for my workout this afternoon!
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