On average, once a week I go hill-walking, because I love this as much as running.
The trouble is, how do I count it, when working out how much training for running I am doing? A hill-walk/scramble for me will be say 5-7 hours pretty intensive climbing/descending where for half of it, I am at least as breathless if not more, as when running on my easy runs. I used to count it as a rest day, but the fact is, I commonly feel like a rest day to recover from my hill-walking!
I am training for a 10K in December, and for example will spend 2 days hill-walking this week. Can I count it as equivalent to running miles in any way? - it certainly will put a limit on my running mileage for this week.
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From what you say above. I'd say that the session you do of 5-7 hours with your heart rate rising & falling all over the place is a hard session & certainly not a rest day and you're dead right to take a rest day following it.
Where abouts do you go hill walking?, I need to get out & do a lot of hill walkingyomping with a big Bergan on my back, but never sure where to do it, any ideas?
I use hill walking as training for hill running events but I never count up the mileage. Some of my less successful long races have degenerated into long walks anyway!
Good luck and happy walking!
If you're not already doing so, wear your webbing as well for the best training benefit.
I take it your in the forces, which Regimentforce are you with>?
I go hill-walking in Kerry and Tipperary in Ireland (as these are my nearest mountains) - so just guessing (and it is a wild guess) you're from the South of England, the Lake District or Snowdonia would be good places to go.
The only difficulty is that it messes my running miles up!
I was aiming to do 30 miles a week running, and have only done 17 miles this week.
The last weeks did, 30 miles, then 27 miles respectively.
So here I am, ready to spend the weekend hill-walking.
But I am left feeling that maybe I am not doing as many miles as I intended to ready for the 10K. I know it will be unlikely that I fit in running on the days that I hill-walk. But maybe I should, if I want a good result in December.
Thanks.
Is it obvious that Im from the South of England then?, feel some sarcasm