HILL HIGDON

As you might know already I have been following Hal Higdon's Half Marathon training program.  The great thing about this program is that you can modify it to achieve your goal.  The Half Marathon race I am doing is in Central Park which from experience is filled with some challenging hills.  I will be modifying the training program to include one intense hill training.  I will be performing hill exercises in the video at Fort Tryon Park in Inwood section of Manhattan.  It has a great combination of short hills and long hills that are perfect for this kind of training. 

Course info

The course for Grete’s Great Gallop Half-Marathon in Support of AKTIV Foundation 13.1M is tough—two laps of Central Park adds up to a lot of hills—so some long-race experience and hill training are advisable. The start is on East Drive near 70th Street. You’ll complete two full clockwise loops of the park, after which you’ll start a third loop and continue for another 1.2 miles. The finish line is on West Drive near 67th Street. Almost all of the course is run over curving roads and undulating terrain, except for one straight, flat half-mile stretch along the East Side that you’ll run twice. Major uphills are at approximately 1.5, 3, 4, 7.5, 9, and 10 miles.  There are water stations approximately every mile, and Gatorade Endurance Formula is available at 1.25, 3.5, 5.75, 7.25, 9.5, and 11.75 miles.