I made a commitment not too long ago to do more training runs on hills, and in fact to do some interval training on hills, but I have largely failed to follow through. Some of that has been due to a series of races I registered for, and some of it has simply been that I sort of have a routine in which I do a day of speed work a day of tempo work, and mostly recovery, mid, and long runs otherwise.

So, I've been thinking about the easiest ways I can increase the amount of running I do on hills without cutting into my aerobic base training too deeply, and here's what I've come up with. Perhaps some of these ideas will be useful to someone else out there as well.