Your Hill Running Form

1. greatly strengthens lower leg muscles and quadriceps
2. develops good rhythm that will pull your through periods of tiredness
3. good hard workout with relatively little pounding

• keep your chest out and up
• don't lean either forward or backward as you ascend or decline
• you'll get the greatest push from each step when your head, chest, hips and feet are perpendicular to an imaginary horizontal

• maintain the successful rhythm you have established on the flat
• maintain the same effort level - same breathing. (if you keep up the same pace on the hills as on the flats, you'll wear out)
• shorten your stride and let yourself slow down gradually as you ascend. Conserve energy for the rest of the hills
• pick up the rhythm slightly as you near the top. A slight increase in arm rhythm helps you do this

• let gravity do the work. Increased rhythm too will pull you downhill with little energy required
• increase stride length slightly. Too long a stride can pound your knees unmercifully
• lean slightly forward