Monthly Archives: June 2010

I bit the bullet today and decided to tackle hill training head on so I went to the river valley to the hill I had measured the other day. The hill has a 12% grade and is 500 meters long, or at least the part I’m interested in is that long. There is a cross walk half way up conveniently located at the 250 meter mark. I was pretty sure I would not try to go all the way up so I stuck with half way. My regular training routes are all totally flat so I have had absolutely NO hill training before. Because of that I suffer a lot in my trail races where there are lots of hills. Up hills are certainly a challenge but they are nothing compared to the downhill segments. Going down hill is always what destroys my runs. I did a lot of research … Continue reading →

Has anyone ever succeeded in finding an online calorie burning list that shows how many calories burned when you run an 11 minute mile? Mind you, I haven’t searched extensively, but the online sources I use list a 10 minute mile then an 11.5 minute mile but nothing in between. Does that mean that running is a quantum event and one can only run either 10 or 11.5 but nothing in between? So I just err on the side of recording less burned calories than I actually burned. I use the 11.5 minute mile setting, even though I ran an 11 minute mile over 11.35 kilometers today which is a 6:44 pace – to stick with the metric system. I just have to dabble in the American system so I can easily and quickly find an estimate of the calories I have burnt. I simply must look for a metric … Continue reading →