Hills for breakfast, hold the gnats

Great job on the hill repeats, especially doing the last one the fastest.

My recollection of Hudson's recommendations is that you use the steepest hill you can find for hill sprints, but not such a steep hill for the longer hill repeats. I can't remember if he recommends a specific grade for hill repeats.

ooo, i know this! Hudson says 4-6% for Hill Repeats, a fact I relearned after a session on the treadmill with the incline set to 15.

As for the question, can it be too steep? Shortly after the session of 15 incline repeats, I started on my latest injury saga with left shin pain. Not completely sure if it was the hills or the long run 2 days later, but caution is advised!

How do you like your VFFs?

Where did you run those babies? Sounds like a killer hill!

I think it was Bonnie (referring to a Greg McMillan article) that said no hill is too steep, which I assume to mean no hill that on which a road can be built. But perhaps I should rethink it. 4-6% is definitely not steep enough, comparing to the hill Sean Sundwall started me on. (Upper 3rd of the Parkway.) But that hill has the worst of both worlds: lots of cars going by on one side and scary bear-filled woods on the other.

Jeff- it's the hill going from Eagle Lake up to Bandera.

Mont - They're not my favorite because there are some little ridges under the ball of the foot that bug me a little. But I am getting more and more used to the toe pockets, which drove me crazy at first. I doubt I'll ever do really long distances in them. I like total barefoot much better but can't keep the skin on my feet in shape with our very short summers. (I can just hear Mr. Sno sniggering - he goes barefoot even now, up to 10 miles. But I cannot chose the hour I run like he can. I'm 8 months in the dark.)