In the road to Jungfrau Marathon I am incorporating 2 weekly trainingsessions dedicated to hill work. On Wednesday my focus will be on the technical aspects, in the weekend I will work on gradually increase the number of elevation meters (951m last Sunday, going for 1000m this weekend).
On the techical sets such as today my focus is on maintaining a good posture both in climbing aswell in descending. With climbing this means push off from the front of your feet and maintain your upperbody straight. With descending this means not hopping down (jumping and falling on your back foot and using your front foot to push off again) while, hopping down is fast it is very hard on your quads (yesterday I felt like having boiled spaghetti legs due to this), the technical and sustainable way is to shorten the strides increase the cadanse but keep your legs below your centre of gravity.
Furthermore I focused on all 3 climbs this artificial ski hill had to offer (steep grass hill, long climb, winding path) and did 5 sets of each of them - resulting in a trainingsload of 540 m of elevation gains.
Descending I was a little more adventurous than just doing repeats and explored some of the mountainbike paths as a way to add some more fun in the session!
Happy running!
