When practicing running hills for your marathons you have to start with hilly runs and then you move on to hill repeats. The early hill runs are meant to help you get your body used to running the hills. They help you make you stronger by building your legs and lungs. Ultimately, you will start to find the runs on flat surfaces extremly easy.
The 'Hill Repeats' can be compared to doing speed workouts on a hill. You will be running from the bottom or the top of the hill. Or even just a section of the hill. You do the up run at a fast pace, then you jog back down to the bottom and repeat this again. This should really help you with your hill runs. It is important to concencentrate on your running form being very good.
Other important things to remember include always running with your nose over your toes. This will help maintain your body weight over your body all the time as you run up and down the hills. You should avoid leaning too far forward or too far back. You will have the correct positioning if you keep your body at right angles to the surface of the hill. It is no secret that running downhill is hard on your back, however you as a marathon runner have to get used to this.
Some of the marathon courses you will run will have downhill stages, so it is important that you practice these too but not as often as you do the uphill runs. That is all you need to know when it comes to running hills.
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