In GPP I’m doing hills for acceleration - sg like 5 seconds up a hill (timed with my beeper).
(This way I cover about the distance I usually take to reach full speed - as you see I’m far from elite level )
The question is how steep the hill should be. Not in terms of degrees (although I always used to be a clever little boy when it came to geometry I simply can’t estimate the angle of a hill standing on a 200m slope…I guess nobody can.)
So I’d like to know in terms of more time - less distance.
Example (that’s what I’m doing currently - it feels ok, but is it ok?):
If an athlete usually takes 5 secs to reach 39m on the flat and does 5 secs on a hill and reaches 32.5m: the distance covered on the hill is approx 83% (-17%)
Unless you have a set square… and a bulldozer, you’ll have to take the hill you can find. Timing it is a good idea, as you can keep the work period constant. As a general rule, the steeper the hil, the shorter the interval.
Over the weekend running on “my hill” I even found a way to estimate the “steepness”.
I measure a distance like 30m and mark a start and finish line.
The start line is beside a tree.
From the finish line (at floor level) I look back in the direction of the tree and make somebody mark the tree in the hight I see the horizon behind it.
(The horizon behind the tree is completely flat land)
For “my hill section” I got 4m height on 30m distance, so I can get the angle…(sin a = 4/30…etc)
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