Squaw Peak Hill Repeats
September 1, 2008 7:36 amWhen in California my favorite place to do hill repeats is up Thomas Grade. There each climb is a 400 ft. elevation gain and takes about 7 minutes. This is similar to doing mile repeats when I am running. Being in Utah I didn’t have the same type of hill but I do have a longer climb of a similar grade up Squaw Peak.
So yesterday I set out to do repeats up this hill. I watched the elevation on my Polar heart rate monitor to know where to start and stop each interval. I pushed hard to climb 400 feet vertically, then biked easy for a 200 foot climb, then repeat. I was able to do three repeats when I reached the summit.
This graph shows my heart rate increasing for each of the three repeats.
My times were not quite as fast as when I did a similar 400 foot climb up Thomas Grade, but then I had ridden 120 miles the prior day and was not yet recovered.
Hill Repeats up Squaw Peak |
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| Interval Climb: 400 feet then Easy Climb:200 feet | ||||
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Lap
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Time
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Max HR
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Avg HR
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Avg. Grade |
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8/31/08
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1
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7:00
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160
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156
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7.1% |
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2
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7:42
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161
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156
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6.4% |
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3
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7:28
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158
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153
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8.3% |
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