training for running

[devildog2011]

For PFT, should I be training on a flat track, off road paths (I live close enough to Shenandoah National Park that I can get good 3-5 mile trails), or on hilly roads? Or does it really matter as long as I'm running?

Semper Fi:usmc:

[BR34]

Just run. In bootcamp you'll be running in the street. It'll be flat if you go to P.I., not sure about S.D.

[rvillac2]

Flat in SD, too. Only problem is that you'll be running with a view of the airport with all those freedom birds taking off.
When you move to Pendleton, you get to run with a view of the ocean (sometimes) and the I-5 freedom freeway home. ; )

[winniele]

i suggest run hills because when you run on flat land, it will be a lot easier.

[Sgt D]

Just Run. Do them all. It will change the scenery and also round you out.

[Haffner]

Do alot of sprints and run up hills.

[PEGwinn]

Interval training is best for reducing your time on a specific run (like the PFT).

Find a quarter mile track. Take off at a jog and count to twenty. Then run flat out while counting to twenty. Do this for two miles. When it becomes easy jog for a ten count and sprint for twenty. Up the distance until you hit your target.

Do this twice a week with an easy run in between. Easy is three miles at a good (but not sandbagging) pace.

This works great if you apply it. Knocked off a full minute at the Staff Academy using it.

No track handy? Use a road and the telephone poles as markers. Run one length and sprint the next. Same idea. Uphill roads and phone poles will kick your butt quick, fast, and in a hurry.

[Tyson]

Flat in SD, too. Only problem is that you'll be running with a view of the airport with all those freedom birds taking off.
When you move to Pendleton, you get to run with a view of the ocean (sometimes) and the I-5 freedom freeway home. ; )

i still remember seeing the birds takin off wishin i was on one all of first phase but come 3'rd phase i didn't want to leave, and the I-5 oh the funny stories i have from there lol....