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should I continuously do it during training?
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...I have experimented with leaning back and forward more, forward feels more comfortable, except it does increase the speed at which i decend the hill and does make me feel a little out of control on the steeper hills. ... Here is another question to go with the original now that I have some answers. I wear a Heart Monitor and have noticed that when I lean forward and accelerate down the hills my heart rate goes up, not as much as running up the hills, but it does go up because of the effort put into acceperating down the hill. So this question is, should I be accelerating down the hills or "cruising" so to speak? I ask because when I was new to this I used downhills as a break, especially after an up hill climb. I would use the downhill to allow my heart rate to come back down a bit. Now on my tempo runs and races lately, I have used the downhills as a place to bank time or pick up a couple seconds. I know this is fine for races, but should I continuously do it during training? .
Prince of Fatness
Not at it at all.