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Climb-heavy training: hill blocks, time-on-feet, vertical gain, and the taper. Building the engine for a mountain race.

01Vert & Volume · Jul 13, 2026Vert, Explained: How Much Climbing Is a "Climby" Race?Vert is total vertical gain — the feet you climb, added up, netting nothing. The feet-per-mile framework that sorts runnable from brutal, and how flatlanders train for a mountain race.6 MIN

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