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| Best of the Carshalton area hills over 20 miles |
With the Greensands Marathon in mind I've been working as many hills as possible into my runs. Whilst the Carshalton area is far from mountainous there's a few good hills around. On Thursday I took advantage of all the roads which go up onto Banstead road for an 8 mile run with 800ft of height gain and loss, and today I did a bit of a 'best of local hills' for my long run. Banstead road, Oaks Park, Chipstead road, Banstead Woods and the hills down into Coulsdon all got run; 20 miles with a relentless selection of hills and over 2,000 ft of height gain across the route. Good training, however the only problem is Greeensands has 5,200 ft ( a vertical mile!) to contend with so there needs to be a bit more hill training needed before the day!
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