Heanor Running Club
Speed Work – ‘Hills’
4 x 1200m ‘Repeats’
Date: 12th April 2007
Conditions: Cool, Dry
Notes: We met at Shipley Park (SP) for my second training session at the new meet and I was really looking forward to it. Although the last session was hard I really enjoyed running in the beautiful surroundings.
I could feel my right hamstring was tight so I asked Rob what we would be doing and made him aware of my niggling injury. He informed me we would be doing six intense hills of around twelve hundred meters each. Rob told me just to do four if my leg was playing up.
We set off along the trim track and down by Ozzie’s Pond and across a field towards the Cricket ground. Once there I saw the hill that we would be running up. It was nothing like the short hill runs we were doing at the American Adventure in the winter. This was a huge hill that just went on and on. You run up around four hundred meters then it flattens off for around one hundred meters. Then it gets tough as the hill sweeps around for the toughest two hundred meters before you reach the summit and start the 500 meter recovery jog down the other side of the hill.
I remember thinking at the top of the first loop that there was no way I would finish four of these, never mind the six I would be doing if not injured. I clearly recall a chronic stitch on the recovery jog down and this never left me throughout, no matter how many techniques I used to shift it.
The second loop was tough again and at the end of the third I had to stop to stretch and catch my breath. I then began the fourth and completed it feeling happy that I had finished what I had set out to do but very tired and my legs like jelly.
The warm down jog was gentle but damn, this was a hard workout!
Positive: I completed the most grueling workout I have ever done
Negative: I am still suffering with my damn right hamstring.
Days to Edinburgh Marathon: 44
"No pain, no gain."
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The Five Boroughs
"There's more to this place than Manhattan"
Staten Island
"Only the first half mile is spent on Staten Island as you immediately leave across the Varrazano-Narrows bridge into Brooklyn"
Brooklyn
"Almost half the race is spent in Brooklyn, where many different neighbourhoods and cultural changes are passed through"
Queens
"The race enters Queens at exactly the half way point by crossing the Pulalski Bridge, over Newton creek, where you get your first amazing view of the City. The next 3 miles are spent here until crossing the challenging Queensboro Bridge over the East river."
Manhattan
"The first of two visits into Manhattan comes at mile 16 as you leave the Queensboro Bridge. Greeted by thousands of screaming spectators makes this one of the most memorable moments of the race, before the 4 mile stretch up First Avenue towards the Bronx"
Bronx
"At mile 20 you cross the Willis Avenue Bridge into the Bronx where little over a mile is run before returning to Manhattan across the Madison Avenue Bridge, where you see the Yankee Stadium, which has to be the highlight of the short trip across the Harlem river"
Manhattan 2
"As you arrive back in Manhattan the course proceeds down Fifth Avenue for 3 miles before entering Central Park for the final push and that moment that will last forever."
Varrazano-Narrows (Staten Island-Brooklyn)
Pulalski Bridge (Brooklyn-Queens)
Queensboro Bridge (Queens-Manhattan)
Willis Avenue Bridge (Manhattan-Bronx)
Madison Avenue Bridge (Bronx-Manhattan)
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