Running Up That Hill | Workout Of The Month

[@runningchannel]

What's your favourite workout? 🤔

[@balrajsingh776]

Definitely not hill repeats ;)

[@stuffedapples73]

Most effective hill workout for me is 16x200m hill sprints with walk/jog down recovery. Got me from being a 5:03 miler to 4:47 miler from one workout. Really gave me the strength to kick that last lap

[@indradatt414]

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[@indradatt414]

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[@michealjohnny]

🎂 Cake walks 🎂 ;-)

[@jeffreyjefferson536]

I looove hill repeats and I have witnessed their power! It sounds cliché but they're like a magic boost. It only takes a few days and I can feel (and measure on the clock) the added spring in my step. My favourite hill is about 200m long, takes me a bit over a minute and I usually do it 10 times in a row. I start at an effort around 7/10 and then aim to keep the pace throughout. Which means the last 3 reps are 10/10 :D

[@davesharratt917]

Yes... just over a minute and x10 is what I've tried to do usually. Those last few are tough although I always find I can dig in when I realise I'm on the last one.

[@NachoDog3]

Way to go, Andy. Happy birthday! 🎂

[@runningchannel]

Thank you! 😃

[@ohaiitsarielle]

I’m training for my first 100 miler on August 27th! My coach likes to incorporate hill repeats, whether 4 x 30 seconds at the end of a long run or up to 3 minutes as its own workout! I did 5 x 3 minute hill repeats last month, and I did 6 x 3 minute hill repeats and it hurt real bad, but it’s sooo beneficial!

[@donnawilliams1825]

Hill training sessions are my absolute favorite. Peace 🕊️ Blesssings to everyone involved with the podcast.

[@Firefly1973R]

A very happy birthday to you Andy! Hope it's an awesome day! Love these videos, I am learning so much with every video! Thank you to your and the team.

[@runningchannel]

Thanks Nina! Really glad you enjoy our videos 😊 Will you be giving this workout a go?

[@patriciay.c.e.linphd6125]

Love it. And actually I would much rather do hill repeats than speed workouts. I have done them on trails as well as road and used them to prep for hilly trail races. Happy Birthday!

[@Hacknerspeaks8938]

🎂 Happy Birthday Andy! Really enjoying this series. Currently training for a half marathon and will try this workout for my next session.

[@tasminwhite3967]

Happy Birthday Andy 🎂🍰🥳 A great effort. I usually spend all my time trying to avoid hills 😅 but I will give this workout a go, just need to find the right hill first. Well done on another informative video - really helpful, thank you 😊

[@stuartthurstan]

Have always incorporated hill repeats into my training. At least once a week I either do 10 second sprints (10 reps) or 90 second efforts (4 to 6 reps). I do these on a gradient of about 10%. I wouldn't call either of these my favourite workout though, in fact the 90 second efforts are absolute torture by the time I get to the fifth rep. Happy birthday Andy ;)

[@archmageofendor3312]

Thankyou @the running channel for this series! Not only inspiring me to go out running but giving me workouts to programme into my Garmin too!

[@gregoryhughes800]

Happy Birthday, Andy. First day of hill workouts for me tonight. Was going to run 100m up then jog down - I want the jarring effect of the downhill as I have a nasty trail race up and down ski hills to prepare for - but maybe I'll try this at first. Really looking forward to it. Thanks.

[@harmonyway09]

Awesome job as usual Andy !!! Thanks for being you !!!

[@gabrielsebastian1459]

Happy birthday Andy!! 🎂 Will try to incorporate some uphill running into my trainings, over here I've only really steep or really gentle inclinations, hope my legs survive the steep ones!

[@JimmysGarden]

Happy Birthday Andy. Here in Stoke it's very hilly most of my runs includes steep hills. I'll for sure include a few reps into my runs. Thanks for the informative video 🏃‍♂️👍

[@mathilde569]

Happy birthday Andy ! What dedication to run hills reps on this day 🤩

[@robbrito8325]

🎂 Happy Birthday Andy! Great video and commentary of how you feel during this training session.

[@eileenn8358]

🎂🎊🥳Happy Birthday Andy! I really enjoyed this workout video. Those were proper hill repeats!!

[@rajatsehgal6534]

Happy Birthday Andy. 😊🎂👏 Stay safe and well. Have a wonderful day. 👍🏽 Fantastic video. Was looking for one and you guys have delivered. Thanks again.😊👍🏽

[@wilsontang8995]

🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! And thanks for the video. I was thinking about doing hill repeats and this will help!

[@haydnmclean3238]

🎉Happy birthday Andy. Hope you have many more. I like running up hills for strength training but I don't do hill repeats. I will try to get that into my routine moving forward. Thanks for the workout.

[@Marktburgess]

🎂Happy Hill Birthday! Great stuff Andy and really helpful as usual.

[@euancolquhoun992]

🎂 Happy Birthday Andy! Great workout!

[@mattdiglio4524]

Thanks for the great video and the explanation. I'll definitely use this workout. Happy birthday! 🍰🎂

[@suemcadam7276]

Happy birthday Andy! 🎂 Great workout. I've tried something similar, usually 5 reps after a parkrun and before a slow jog home. Now I might add in a set before parkrun as well...

[@Dok7109]

🎂 Great workout Andy. A local hill is coming to mind to practice these on.

[@heathicusmaximus8170]

I appreciate you showing the entire workout for us. I'm set to do hill repeats tomorrow and dreading it, but looking forward to conquering a hilly race this summer.

[@elzuzo]

Wow! Great workout. I'm starting to train for a 5K peace. I'm going to do this. Thanks for the video.

[@olaflally7713]

Well done Andy! Great video! Happy birthday! 🎂

[@aqasanu1992]

Many happy returns of the day.

[@teresavanlokven9767]

I recently started a marathon training block and having watched this workout when it first can out I'd decided to incorporate this session in to the plan. Having found hills over the years to pay dividends this format seemed a good way to put in a worthwhile longer session. Okay I'm 64 and would like at least a good for age qualifier in my October marathon and you might think i would have checked out what was vaguely expected again beforehand but i went with what was in my head. W/u 15min not quite 2m straight into the hills ( for my age i though 10 was pushing my luck so I did 6 ) and glanced at the watch when i reached the goal lamppost in 28/29 sec on the first, my thought's were 30 sec so didn't look again just worked on form. By chance on the last walk down (always jogged in the past so that was nice) my watch bleeped 3m and i set off on a mile out and back probably close to park run pace before the second set 6 x hill and finished session with slow w/d. An hour and 7m later in the mid day sun and a happy man got ready for work. Two days later I needed the planned rest day that following day, oh boy did my quads need a rest. Next time I do this session i'm thinking it will be 2 x 8 x 10sec with 3m easy in between. Any ideas for my age group Workout / goal marathon ? or should i just stick with what worked in the past, just tweaked a bit. Ian

[@jamesh284]

Happy birthday Andy 🎂🎂🎉🎉I have to say I do like a good hill session. I find it good to do them in a group because you can really push yourself to keep up/pass friends of similar ability.

[@runningchannel]

Thank James! Completely agree, it can be hard to find the motivation to do hill sprints if you have to find yourself accountable, always better in a group!

[@DavidWilliams-sd7yw]

Where I live every where is a hill. Most of my training runs consist of around 180m-200m incline and I consider that to be a fun run....but I do love a hill repeat session.

[@runningchannel]

Wow that's a very hilly fun run 😂 Where abouts do you live?

[@DavidWilliams-sd7yw]

@@runningchannel in the heart of the South Wales valleys...lovely running here. The graft of the hill climb is nearly always rewarded with a beautiful view so makes it all worth while

[@rogerrichards8048]

Well done Andy - great effort & well filmed by the crew with some great drone shots. Happy returns 🎂 & hope you managed to celebrate a little after the recording. I’ll always regard you as the King of Parkrun.

[@runningchannel]

Thanks Roger! We got really lucky with the weather for the shoot as well 😊 Would you do hill reps on your birthday?

[@LeahJ_stiches]

Happy Birthday, Andy! I did my hill reps yesterday. ;-)

[@alasdairdalton9735]

🎂 Happy Birthday Andy. Hill reps are great, uncomfortable at the time but definitely worthwhile.

[@runningchannel]

Thanks Alasdair! Going to give this hill work out a go?

[@alasdairdalton9735]

Maybe, the 30min run in the middle is a good idea. I tend to go for longer hill reps with a shorter recovery jog in the middle but a different option might be fun.

[@CorruptionBuster1]

Happy Birthday Andy!....Keep up the great content.....

[@tomshaw7738]

Happy birthday Andy 🍰. A few more of those hill reps and you’ll be ready to beat your own parkrun WR.

[@glennnicholls8510]

I've been doing hill repeats on my own training plan. I look forward to the session even though I find it quite hard. I get a sense of achievement from that session. 🎂🎂

[@triggerhappymacrogir]

Happy birthday, Andy!! I am a crap uphill runner (I will start walking because otherwise my heart spikes absurdly high), so you’ve just reminded me I need to start doing hill reps again to get better at them. 🥲

[@raeleneyoung8459]

🥳🎂 happy birthday Andy. I haven’t done any hill training in ages. Thanks for the tip … time to add it back into my weekly training 😅

[@runningchannel]

Let us know how you get on! What's your favourite workout?

[@moniqueblake8449]

🎂 happy belated birthday and will definitely be incorporating some more hill reps

[@ljukherrecker]

I do hill reps especially in the first weeks after a break. Normally they are planned once per week over a month or so and every week a little bit harder. It can be like running up fast 45sec and easy down for 45min or like 15x400m fast uphill. When I did it the first couple of times I hated them, but now I am convinced they prepare me for later hard flat interval sessions which are more simulating the competition (e.g. half marathon pace). Because they give me the power to hold high pressure for longer time, in other words shift my aerobic barrier further. Happy birthday! 🍰

[@_Crumpet]

Happy Birthday Andy 🎂 Hill repeats don't sound like much of a birthday present. Hope you have a great day

[@luke865]

Well done Andy, looks like a fun session 🎂🍰🧁

[@simondtaylor]

Well done Andy. Great video and a very happy birthday to you! 🎂

[@Lewis080]

Happy Birthday Andy 🎂 Great content again TRC

[@tatjanakueth5278]

🎂 Happy Birthday Andy! What a way to celebrate 😂

[@timbushell]

Happy Birthday Andy - looked like fun 🎂

[@ArthurWeeks]

Happy Birthday! 🎂 I need to start doing some hill reps. I haven't done them in a while and I deliberately avoid them on my easy runs.

[@mrwildwillie3]

Happy Birthday 🎂 Andy!

[@rojolive5403]

I confess I avoid hill reps but when I do them I definitively the benefit. Happy birthday 🎂 😀

[@RobertHanna]

Thanks Andy! Happy birthday 🎂🍰 I'm going to incorporate this into my routine next week. Now I just need to find a good hill...

[@runningchannel]

Thank Robert! Good luck, let us know how you get on 👍🏻

[@zydrunasjursa9338]

Happy Birthday Andy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gwilymeades]

That's a nice hill, so scenic and dry. I actually really really love hills, and this video helped me to see what is actually effective in a hill rep workout, and how heart rate should elevate over the interval. I do longer hill reps, on steeper hills, in between long warmups and cooldowns or just as part of a run. I think they're effective, but not sure.

[@iwaschuggy]

🎂 🍰 HAPPY BIRTHDAY Andy..! I have a great 5 mile circular course that can either have a short, sharp hill at the beginning (killing the legs at the start of the run) or a long, slow hill at the end (when my legs are already tired - which is definitely worse).

[@wayneevans7392]

Thankyou. Another great video. Personally I love hills. I’ll definitely be adding this workout into my plan. Happy belated birthday 🎂

[@lynnmundy1460]

Lots of hills where I am too can't run for more than 20 minutes without a hill! Well done Andy happy hilly birthday 🎂

[@runningchannel]

Both a blessing and a curse then! 😅 Where abouts do you live?

[@shanepetersen7572]

🎂 Happy birthday Andy Hope you had a awesome day

[@matthewfagence9839]

Great effort Andy! 👊 and HB🎂👍

[@fisfia]

Happy birthday 🎂🎈🎉 Very inspirational, thanks for a great vid!

[@jayg1605]

Fair play doing that workout on your birthday Andy! 🎂

[@bustatank1958]

Cheers Andy 🍰 Must get back to doing more of these

[@ftwydra3]

🎂 great workout and happy birthday!

[@lindamallinson1624]

🎂🥳 Well done, Andy. Thanks for another great video.

[@runningchannel]

Thanks Linda! What's been your favourite Training Peaks video?

[@craigriedel4688]

Going to give this workout a try tomorrow, looks great! Simple yet very effective, the way I like it.

[@christinaclementson]

Love a hill!! I ran Boston in April and hill training proved invaluable!! They make you so strong! Looked like a good workout 💪💪🧁🧁🍰🍰💪💪

[@G88gleplex]

Great Workout and Happy Birthday 🎂

[@runningchannel]

Thanks Duncan! Would you want to do a hill workout on your birthday?

[@G88gleplex]

@@runningchannel definitely - a good hill session then cake. what could be better! Going to give this workout a try this week.

[@pollycastelo9556]

I am gonna try this : thanks Andy! 🎂🎂

[@SoulandJazzWidow]

Happy Birthday Andy! 🥳🍰🎂🥞

[@Quepali]

🎂 I really liked this video on hill reps. I like hills, and have a lot of them on my routes where I run. Definately moving away from chasing time on my routes, to chasing hill efforts instead. 😅

[@tallwilliam4370]

Did 18k long run today. I'd be pleased to dedicate the effort to your birthday! 🎂

[@chad.haggerty]

🎂 happy birthday! Love the workout. Hate the workout while doing it but love the workout.

[@CliveWalker]

Tough work-out! Happy Birthday!

[@JBIRDRN8]

Great workout! I’ll have to try this! Happy Birthday!!! 🎂

[@regstoy]

Happy birthday Andy, 🎂 if you really like hills, head over here to Dublin, to do the River Valley and Ardgillan Parkruns, as Crocodile Dundee would say..."they're not hills, now this is a hill" 🤪

[@rebecca4508]

🎂Happy hill repeat birthday Andy! Thank you so much for this video, I'm a runner terrified of hills, but this almost has me convinced to give hill repeats a try. It looks super hard, but also kinda approachable. I use a local hill as my warm-up walk, so I really have no excuses....

[@helengodber3178]

Bit late to the party 🥳 hope you had a good birthday after making this video. Great video, really informative

[@newyorkcityjazz1]

Happy Birthday! Thanks for the hill repeats

[@carlagalloway9482]

Happy birthday I enjoy your channel!

[@joliendecoster6562]

🥳🍰🎂 Happy Birthday !!! 🍨🍫🧁 nice workout!! 🤩💪

[@seikodude]

Happy Birthday Andy!

[@davidjuson5608]

🍻Couldn't find a cake emoji with candles, so I've sent you a couple of pints. Useful. I missed this first time round and I am doing hill sprints as part of my marathon training. It was a relief to see how casual you were between the sprints, I was wondering if I was taking it too easy. Thanks again Andy.

[@jimhart1516]

🎂 Happy Birthday Andy!

[@jps5871]

For me Hill Repeats have given me the biggest gains in running. I also like hill repeats ( for me way less boring then a track interval session) That would be a great video “ Making intervals more fun”🎂

[@andersonteo4879]

🥳 Happy belated birthday Andy! Hill reps is really tough but essential for improving one's running form. It is a love-hate relationship with hill reps. Definitely throwing in hill reps into the Marathon Training Plan from TRC which I have decided to adopt in preparation for 4th Dec Marathon in my city. Training will begin in Aug. This will be my first attempt to a Marathon.

[@klehmz]

Happy Birthday Andy! 🎂

[@Doofmonster]

🎂! I hit a wall with my parkrun PB's, so I think I will include this workout in the next few days and I will test if it works for me ;)

[@runningchannel]

Great! Let us know how you get on 😀 Have you given the other Training Peaks workouts a go?

[@Doofmonster]

@@runningchannel No, not yet. I just started running (and exercising) this year and as a beginner runner with no fancy equipment I tend to mostly run for fun and push myself intuitively. But I integrated your home workout follow along videos into my weekly routine, they are great!

[@JM-rm3lt]

I’m the same. I have hit a real wall. Will also be trying. Good luck to you.

[@Doofmonster]

@@JM-rm3lt Good luck to you too J M!

[@krehme]

Great job! I will definitely work this into my rotation!

[@jameswillis1995]

🎂 This inspired me to do some hill reps today. First time in weeks!

[@marcroberts7098]

🎂Nice video Andy. Happy Birthday

[@upststemike29]

Happy Birthday🎉🎉🏃🏻‍♂️. Your effort is inspiring me to try this hill-rep routine today!

[@runningchannel]

Thanks Michael! Let us know how it goes

[@johnlebeter7694]

I'm liking the series. Looking forward to putting these tips to the test.🙂

[@runningchannel]

Great John! Which one has been your favourite so far?

[@EmilianoMolina]

Happy birthday, Andy! 🎂

[@samsonslaphead1]

🎂Great workout Andy, happy Birthday Enjoyed the video

[@dabascom]

Happy Birthday, Andy!! Hills….love them and don’t 😂😊. Thanks for the great video.

[@stevemcq75]

🎂🎂🎂 Happy Birthday Andy! 🎂🎂🎂

[@ClairSparkes]

🎂a bit late!!! happy belated birthday! will catch you on the next one.

[@carolinem5515]

Going to try this tomorrow, thanks

[@iggalan]

Happy Birthday Andy!!! 🎉🍻 I don't do hill repeats ever 😀 . I live in a hilly area and my normal runs usually have plenty of hills, so I don't feel like doing more of them 😅 . I'd rather do a speed session on the track.