I'm back at home for a few weeks. I use to live in the St. Louis area where it's fairly hilly, so I had no problem finding a route to do hill intervals on. But now that i'm at home until somwhere in October, I need advice on how to train for hills when there are only 3 or 4 along my route. There are more but on a different route, i'm thinking of chaning my route up to incorporate 6 hills into my routine. None of them are all that inclined. I'm just looking for advice from others who have this same problem.

Wes

k, I'm in St. Louis. I guess it depends on what you consider hills? Which ones in St. Louis are you talking about? I'm not sure how you train for less hills though.

I lived in Webster Groves...i use to go to school at Webster U. for Audio Production but now have decided to make a career change and go into culinary school at Ladue, ( L Ecole Culinaire). So until I fine an apartment in the Webster or Kirkwood area i'm stuck at home which is nothing but flat terrain. My route for St. Louis was to leave Webster and take lockwood until it changes to adams, that takes me through kirkwood and then i get on to N. Geyer which takes me through frontenac. Then i go left on Clayton( right will take you to Ladue) and from clayton i go through town and country and hit mason...but from there i'm not sure what the roads are called. Whenever i would do hill intervals i would take Ballas(by the west county mall)because the hills are pretty much one after another. I guess while i'm at home for a few weeks i'll just stick with working on sprinting and endurance rides.

Wes

k, I know about where you're talking about. I dunno. Some days I go routes like on Olive from Delmar to 270. To me there are about 2 "hills" that take some getting used to. Then again on days when I don't go that route, I just tend to ride faster. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish really.

I'm from Delaware where there's hardly any hills. There is one on my regular ride. When I want to work on hills, I just ride up it, turn around, go back down, ride up, etc. Very boring, but it's about all I can do here in the flat lands.

I'm in Southern New England where it is one hill after another. I would gladly trade a few hills for an occasional long flat stretch.

John B. - Come to the Mississippi Delta - it will fulfill all your dreams of a flat stretch. It's bad when the teeny incline into the driveway feels like a hill.