Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Saturday, August 28, 2004 Downhill trainingI did some downhill training today. I'm hoping to work on my downhill running this fall and winter.I'm not a good downhill runner. I never have been. But a few years ago I tried to improve my downhill running. It worked. In fact, it worked well. With just a bit of training and practice I started running better downhills on O' courses. When I got hurt, all the training went out the window. Not only did I lose all of my fitness, but I also lost my confidence to run in the terrain. Instead of feeling comfortable running in the woods, I was scared. I was most scared on denial's. I'm feeling a lot better about running in the terrain, so it is time to start working on my downhill running again. Today's session was the first, but I hope not the last. I ran on a foot trail at Weston Bend. I jagged up a hill, then turned around to jog down. On the way back, I put in one minute at a hard effort. I picked a part of the trail that would have some roots, twists and turns, and a couple of logs to jump over. The picture below shows my h.r. and altitude curve for one of the five hills I ran (I ran the same hill five times). The altitude curve shows that I climbed at a fairly steady rate from the bottom of the hill. I kept a steady, but not hard, pace. As I went up the hill my h.r. climbed to about 160. At the top of the hill I took a clunk of water from my water bottle and jagged a short easily for about 30-60 seconds. Then I ran hard down the hill for one minute. You can see on the altitude curve that I lose altitude quickly (compare the slope for the downhill to the uphill). You can see from the h.r. curve that I was working hard. My h.r. climbed to just over 160 in the minute I ran. It was a fun way to train. posted by Michael | 7:54 PM 
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