My Canicross running buddy, D, does not like hills. She does not like slogging up them without a dog to help - she owns the darling Pointer Power, Brontë - and hates getting pulled down them (Pointer Power is fast!) 😆
She’s been asking me to take her out for some hill repeats for ages - not that I’m any expert! - but what with one thing and another (generally dogs, or kids, or dogs and kids!) it just hasn’t happened.
But today was sunny but cold, and more importantly not wet - the hill that used to by my nemesis, and is still hers, is loose gritty stuff at the bottom and solid chalk farther up - and we are both under instruction not to run our doggoes in harness (as they’re currently taking part in a Galen massage therapy trial) so off we went. Not a dog in sight 😮
Warm up walk through the farm, then a gentle jog - uphill on the loose stuff - to the steeper part of the hill. 5 x (run roughly 100m up, walk down) followed by a gentle run/walk to the top of the hill. And then 3 x (up a short bit, down the other side, walk back) then a controlled run down to where we began and on through the farm.
We were both late starting our devices so actually covered 5k by the time we finished.
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skysue16 , you signed up for this month’s Virtualrunner Dog Jog didn’t you?