Quote Originally Posted by Starsky View Post
I was interested to see just how soon the walking starts, basically after the first 3 runners everyone was walking. The hills in the Trunce don't seem that big but no matter how hard I try the walking on that climb always starts sooner than I'd like!

Not really sure how to get round this, put plenty hills in during training but maybe I should be doing reps on them? Any ideas??

I'm sure you're on to something with the efficiency thing though Simon. Generally I try and shorten my stride length but keep the cadence up and avoid any big steps up if I can as that seems then to be putting more strain on the legs. Guess it's a balance of conserving the legs and getting up there as quickly as you can. Actually I guess I don't really know what I'm talking about so I'm going to shut up now!
I can run up here in the race but often you have the problem of others walking up in front. the other problem is you have to go out hard at the start so you don't get stuck in the bottle neck so your muscles are suffering from oxygen depletion. I try and ease back on the field below to try and recover a little bit as runners go past but they are wrecked at the top. I then push on the upper field.