Hill Repeats

Hello,

So today's workout, courtesy of our coach, AKA our dad, was hill repeats. To start, we ran from our house down to what we call the four diamonds, which is about a mile run. The jog down was supposed to be at a pace that one could talk at easily. It took us about 10 minutes and 58 seconds at about a 12:35 pace. From there Trevor and I started the hill repeats. The elevation for the hills were about 222ft with a length of about .2 of a mile. The first two hill repeats I had a little trouble using my Garmin Vivoactive since I had just got mine - so they are a little off. 

The first hill repeat took me about 2 minutes and 15 seconds to run up and 5 minutes 24 seconds to walk down. After the first time both Trevor and I could feel how hard it was and it just got harder after that. The second hill repeat took about 1 minute and 14 seconds to run up and 6 minutes 54 seconds to walk down. Third time it took a minute 55 to run up and 8 minutes and 14 seconds to walk down. 

If you couldn't tell by how long the rest was we were both not feeling well after that one. For the last one it took me 1 minute and 54 seconds to run up and 2 minutes and 27 seconds to walk down to our water bottles. After the hill repeats we were obviously tired and since it's completely up hill to go home, we decided to walk instead of run. It took us 23 minutes and 13 seconds. 

We are also doing heart rate training, so we were supposed to get our heart rates up to zone 4 or 5 and walking back down we were supposed to get back down to zone 1. My max heart rate for the workout was 187 and the average was 145.

~ Kayla & Trevor