do you charge up them, full force and let go at the top like my dh does, or do you attack them like I do and lengthen your stride and lean into them?

Just curious to see each person's techniques

bumping up!

I usually go for it. But if I know there are other hills in my route I will take it with stride as to not tire myself out.

Hills have been kicking my butt. OK is so flat so I have become accustomed to running on flat surfaces...I see a hill now and it's like "holy cow". When I ran in PA and back home in Canada, I was always running hills and as much as they sucked, I don't ever remember them burning me out like they do here. OK is BAD for runners.....you get lazy here.

My dad always told me to attack the hill but when I started running with a running club in Portland the coach told me to take shorter, but quicker, strides up a hill. A lot has to do with how steep the hill is, it's easier to attack a smaller sloping hill than a long steep hill.

I spent a lot of my younger years in Germany (dad military, mom German) and it was very hilly there. Then I lived in Oregon for years and most of my running route was uphill one way and downhill one way. When I did the Hood to Coast one of my legs was 6 or 7 miles uphill on a gravel road and it didn't phase me (I definetely took short, quick strides on that one! NO way was I going to charge up that hill ). Now we're in Kansas and while there are a few hills it's nothing like what I used to run.