Hill sprints will teach you who you are

Do you hunt to eat? You’re probably already ready. Avoiding human-marshmallowitis.

One of my favourite local hills. The cherry on top is it gets steeper towards the top. So when you think you’re almost there, it gets little harder.

This morning I did seven hill sprints, not five, not ten, seven.

Why?

Because I felt like that was enough.

80% on the first one and by the second one, you should be hitting full tilt and holding it there.

The beautiful thing about doing hill sprints?

Things should be plural because there’s more than one.

• You get out in nature.
• You challenge yourself.
• You expand as much effort as you can in a short period of time (high bang for buck).
• People walk past and say “wow, that looks hard.” And if it’s morning, you can smile, let out a little laugh and say “good morning”.
• If you find yourself in a situation where you need to run (fast), having a body tuned for sprinting up hills is (very) helpful.
• If you’re doing it right, by the 3rd or 4th summit you lose all sense of being alive (more on this below).

Let’s expand upon and talk about these some more.

Not even 10-minutes