Is the Gradient and Pace of My Hill Repeats Too Steep and Too Fast?

Today’s question comes from Carla Sieberhagen:Hi Lindsay, for the hill repeats I am running a hill that covers 350m up the hill in 2 minutes. The elevation gain is about 20m. So this would be a grade of about 6%. I battle to maintain a steady pace for all the repeats and I am really out of breath even after the first two repeats. Is the grade to steep? At what pace compared to your marathon race pace should you be doing repeats. Thank you. If you would like to read the transcript, click here.If you have a question you would like us to answer, please feel free to ask it on our brand new forum. We get many questions every through the website that we can’t answer on the podcast, but if you ask it in the forum we will be more than willing to answer it for you there. You can register and ask your question hereor you can visit the forum here.Don’t forget that you can also access this podcast by subscribing to it on iTunes, throughStitcher or on SoundCloud. If you got value out of this content please would you be so kind as to leave us a review and/or a rating on whichever platform you listened to it through, this would really help us help more people just like you!