running up that hill
21Feb07“It doesn’t hurt me.
Do you want to feel how it feels?
Do you want to know, know that it doesn’t hurt me?”
Kate Bush clearly has never run up any of the hills in Bath. In fact, finding a hill with a gradual enough slope within jogging distance is a labour of Hercules itself.
But I did find one not too bad, except for the last 100 to 200 yards. On the third repetition, I’d developed a kind of athletic tourette’s, cursing the marathon. It was dark, and I still had not figured out how to programme the Polar RS800sd for such interval training, so there was no helpful beep to tell me when my heart rate had shot through the 170 bpm ceiling for the exercise and that I should slow down.
It was hill training I think that destroyed me when I last trained for the marathon in 2004-5. I did too much, did not understand the process, and probably was wearing the wrong shoes. I overtrained and exhausted myself. And yet, it is probably one of the more valuable training exercises, because by pushing your heart-rate way up they say you start to experience neurological adaptation. That does interest me. At the end of the day though, it also is resulting in a crashing tiredness. We’ll see if tomorrow morning the Polar computer thinks I’m “Normal”. It was kind enough to wake me with those words of comfort the past two days.
Resting Heart Rate 46 bpm
Weight 71.5 kg
Mood 
Excercise energy consumed 514 kcal (10 mins, bike 36 mins hills 4 x 3 mins)
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“I did too much, did not understand the process, and probably was wearing the wrong shoes.”
I told you the red stilletos were a bad idea.
I told you never to mention that.
Seriously, the shoes were stability shoes because I was originally diagnosed as a mild pronator in a running shop. Ian Andrews, Team Bath physio who was treating me at that time, persuaded me that was probably wrong, so I now wear a neutral cushioned shoe.
There is a view that these stability shoes are wrong for everyone, but I don’t know if the science yet supports that yet.
I was also too aggressive back then wearing Nike Frees. These simulate bare-foot running, which is supposed to strengthen the complex of muscles and tendons that is the foot, and which ordinary shoes stop from flexing normally. As was the case back then, I tended toward doing too much of a good thing.