[Scott Johnston]

Great conversation.  Seth is right on the combo of ME and hill sprints and you, Kevin, have experienced the gains first hand.   With reference to Luke Nelson’s ME training before his top ten at the Tor d’Geant 300+km race:  Luke did 13 of the gym ME workouts over the course of 16 weeks. Some work and training interruptions always happen.  We then shifted to 1x/week of steep uphill intervals for 6 weeks before tapering.  We used a hill that Luke has trained on and affectionately named “Stupid Steep”  because the average gradient is 35% or so.   Each of the 3 reps lasted about 15min when we started which already very close to Luke’s PR on that hill.  Each session his time kept improving and by the end he was doing 3 reps all about 2min after than his old one rep PR.  I chalk this up to the fact that as the weeks went on the lingering fatigue from the gym ME wore off.

Scott