I did hill springing workout today in Primrose Hill Park. Ran 3.1 mi. warmup, did 10x60m hill springing repeats with the jog down recovery and then 3.1 mi. cooldown. Hills were pretty hard, and I could feel my calves and ankles got a good workout at the end. I did half of them on grass, and half on pavement. This is one of the Lydiard inspired workouts, along with hill bounding. It's more of a plyometric exercise than pure running, but it helps in building leg power. We did a lot of bounding (not so much springing) when I was training in Russia, but it wasn't up the hill. It was actually done on the track, and we even had time trials bounding over 100m, where both the time, and the number of strides were counted. Anyway, I had success with these workouts last winter, so I'm hoping they'll work again. Total time 1:10:15. | 