Hi, this is Debbie Boyles, coach at Mojo for Running with podcast number 77.

How to Run Hills, Part 1, uphill.

Welcome to the podcast for all runners.

Whether you are a newer runner, training to improve your 5K time, or your training for your first marathon,

you'll find plenty of information in the Mojo for

running podcasts and on the mojo for running.com website. By the way, on that website, there is a button

you can click for podcasts and you will see that there are two listed, this one, the Mojo for Running

podcast, and my podcast, which is specifically for beginners, called the beginner Runner

Village podcast. If you click on the beginner on the Mojo for Running podcast archive, you can see a list

of all of the Mojo for Running podcasts and look for various topics that might be of specific

interest to you at this point in your

running career. On that website, I have programs for people training for their first effort

at a new distance. Please check that out. Now let's talk about hills. Some runners avoid any race or

any training, for that matter, on hills. Other runners live in areas so strewn with hills

that they're unavoidable. They train on hills every day because they have no other options. Still,

other people seek out hills and even look for races with hills. I know some of you are wondering

why anyone would do that. There are a couple of reasons why people

actually like hills. Not surprisingly, people who haven't mastered hill running technique tend to dread

hills and races with hills. They avoid hills whenever possible and lose precious time in any race

that has hills. As a result, runners who know how to run hills

have a huge advantage. They place higher than they would in a race with a flat course. A second reason

to like hills is that they do wonders for your running in general. Train on hills and you will run better. It will make you

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