Training Run 67

I haven't been running since last Wednesday's session, but tonight's session more than made up for that in my opinion!  Cristian led this evening and we were practicing running uphill.  We ran up the shallower side path of Primrose Hilll, where Cristian had laid out markers denoting 200m and 250m up the hill.  He said that if we wanted to run to the very top, that would be about 270m.  The aim was to run up as fast as possible and then use the run back down the hill as active recovery.  I did 5 reps of this - I ran to the top of the hill on the first one, up to 250m for the next two and only up to 200m for the fourth one.  It got harder each time - I really pushed myself running up the hill, I could feel the charge in my sprint, but also the burning in my lungs as I willed myself to run as hard as possible up the hill.  On the final rep Cristian encouraged me to run all the way to the top again and that was very tough, but I felt great when I reached the top.  This was definitely one of the tougher sessions I have done in a while but I know that hill work is always beneficial, especially at the moment during cross country season!