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Jan 2017
4:21pm, 8 Jan 2017
17,085 posts
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LazyDaisy
No cycling for months Sharkie! However I have just yesterday agreed to join a parkrun friend's 'beginners road biking' training group - he's doing a bike trainer course or something - and he is going to teach us things like riding in a group, drinking while riding etc etc, which will be good. And another couple of women, also from parkrun, have got themselves smart new road bikes for Christmas and we've agreed we would make a good (ie not intimidating) little group for decent road trips when the weather's suitable. I hope that this will finally be the year I learn to love not only hills but cycling too.
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Jan 2017
4:23pm, 8 Jan 2017
10,780 posts
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Sharkie
That's great news LD - I look forward to hearing about your exploits.
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Jan 2017
4:25pm, 8 Jan 2017
10,781 posts
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Sharkie
By the way I bet you would be very good at sprint hills. Very different from the long slow inclines many distance runners call hill training (valid in a different way of course).
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Jan 2017
4:27pm, 8 Jan 2017
17,087 posts
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LazyDaisy
Sprint hills? Shortish but sharpish? I can do those less than 50m from my front door - but how short and how sharp do they need to be, Sharkie?
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Jan 2017
4:38pm, 8 Jan 2017
10,782 posts
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Sharkie
50 metres is more than enough.
Try 2 sets of 5, really power up with good form - use your arms and really pick your feet up. Walk back down slowly-ish. Take four or five minutes walk or jog between.
See how they feel.
If they're properly steep I do hills as short as 20- 30 metres. It's good to get a variety of distances.
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Jan 2017
4:43pm, 8 Jan 2017
17,089 posts
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LazyDaisy
*takes notes* 
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Jan 2017
10:16pm, 9 Jan 2017
1,470 posts
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decorum
Slowly ascending ... run asc: 510m, bike asc: 383. Total asc*: 893
* That's Total ascent, not Total Ass!
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Jan 2017
7:03am, 10 Jan 2017
17,109 posts
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LazyDaisy
Not running again until I get my antibiotics from the doc. She seemed to think the test results would be through today so she can give me the right ones. I hope so - very fed up of feeling yuk and I have hills to run up!
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Jan 2017
3:34pm, 22 Jan 2017
10,903 posts
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Sharkie
How's everyone doing?
I knew the last ten days would be a lower hill score for me. I was in mainly flat London rather than hilly Hastings, and I only logged about half the amount of climbing.
Still, it's not too bad - I'm now on 2407 metres of climbing by foot only. I'm hoping to reach 4,000 by the end of the month, there will be lots of hills this week. How does 'climb a 10k in ten weeks' sound?
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Jan 2017
3:39pm, 22 Jan 2017
17,222 posts
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LazyDaisy
Crikey Sharks you put me to shame! I went out this morning specifically to bag some upward metres. Four miles distance and 187m of ascent, which I was quite pleased with til I read your post!
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