Yes, you read it correctly: the Anderson Street hill, dreaded foe to generations of runners, cherished challenge and friend to many, it is no more. It is an ex-hill.
After the frankly stupendous display of hill running I completed this morning, the “hill” is over. It has been humiliated by my raw hill-running power. Not once, not twice, not thrice (you can see where I’m going with this) but 7 times. After such a convincing display, it can no longer be considered a challenge, and must hang its head in shame.
Under the Hill registration Act 1982 Anderson street will hereby be renamed Anderson Street “rise” or “bump”.
Sources close to Anderson Street say negotiations are in progress over a last-minute rescue plan, whereby the street would retain hill status in return for re-badging itself “Henderson Hill”, in honour of, well, me.
Running
As you may have guessed, a hill session this morning. 7 reps of the hill plus a long-ish warm up and cool down.
Filed under: training , anderson street, the tan
alas, anderson street remains ‘everest’ for me…
So you’re looking for a new hill challenge then?
There’s this little hill called Hacketts Road in Kallista you might like to try
Sorry still very much a hill for me too – but I’m happy to call it Henderson Hill if you want.
i was thinking braggart hill seems more fitting today..lol.
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I really enjoyed reading your post!
Your article was submitted to appear in the kdays.com Running Blog Carnival.
Issue #2008-04 came out today.
Cheers,
Kerrin