Where I live, it's nearly dead flat for miles in every direction (at least given my current running radius). To train for the one small hill on my annual 12k race, I usually try to get in a few 5 minute sets of running up and down stadium bleachers or flights of stairs as preparation, but that's not running. There are a few overpasses over train tracks and such nearby, but usually on high traffic roads with lots of exhaust fumes.
Any other ideas?
Thanks.
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What do flatlanders do for hill training?
Where I live, it's nearly dead flat for miles in every direction (at least given my current running radius). To train for the one small hill on my annual 12k race, I usually try to get in a few 5 minute sets of running up and down stadium bleachers or flights of stairs as preparation, but that's not running. There are a few overpasses over train tracks and such nearby, but usually on high traffic roads with lots of exhaust fumes.
It seems to me I heard somewhere that Ronald H. Nicholson Jr. wrote in article <[email hidden]>:
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What do flatlanders do for hill training?
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Where I live, it's nearly dead flat for miles in every direction (at least given my current running radius). To train for the one small hill on my annual 12k race, I usually try to get in a few 5 minute sets of running up and down stadium bleachers or flights of stairs as preparation, but that's not running. There are a few overpasses over train tracks and such nearby, but usually on high traffic roads with lots of exhaust fumes.
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Any other ideas?
For me freeway overpasses are about the only viable alternative. I'm fortunate that the nearest freeway runs at about a 45* angle to the surface streets, so after going about a mile out from the house I can do two overpasses per mile by zig-zagging on the surface streets. It sounds like your situation isn't quite so promising, but I hope somebody can suggest something for you. -- Don [email hidden]
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It seems to me I heard somewhere that Ronald H. Nicholson Jr. wrote in article <[email hidden]>: For me freeway overpasses are about the only viable alternative. I'm fortunate that the nearest freeway runs at about a 45* angle to the surface streets, so after going about a mile out from the house I can
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two overpasses per mile by zig-zagging on the surface streets. It sounds like your situation isn't quite so promising, but I hope
somebody
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can suggest something for you.
Multi-level parking garages but not much fun when heavily in use. Some use stairmasters.
