Going harder on the uphill and easy on the downhill is actually good training, making the hills similar to interval training. I do hills like this regularly and it helps a lot in a hilly race. The only exception I can think of on the downhill part is if you are specifically training for a race with a lot of downhills - like the St. George Marathon, which is point-to-point with a net downhill of a couple thousand feet.
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