With the right hill racing strategy and the finesse learned in the last episode, you'll be ready to crush any hill in any race, knowing that you have an edge over the other runners, knowing that your performance will be better because of your knowledge of hill strategy and your execution.

It's not hard, but it's something most runners give little attention. Most runners hope to manage any hills in a race, but that's a mistake. You must own hills, and you can.

Then, you'll be looking for races with hills because you'll know you have an advantage, and you'll be confident that you know exactly what to do.

Mojo for Running Coaching

For most people, running hills is an element of running to tolerate, but to the wise, properly trained and knowledgeable runner, hills provide an avenue to faster running and faster races. Between improved conditioning from using hill training as speedwork and improved hill-running technique, any runner's mindset should change from dreading hills to embracing hills.

High intensity interval training has been a recognized training modality for a dozen years, now, and over that time its effectiveness and versatility have proven it to be worthy of inclusion in the training regimen of any serious runner, but more than that, we now know that high intensity interval training has many health benefits, including benefits for heart health.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Mayo Clinic Podcast, Nutrition & Fitness, The Role of High Intensity Interval Training and Stregnth Training in Cardiovascular Health.

NIH: High-intensity interval training for health benefits and care of cardiac diseases - The key to an efficient exercise protocol