First we took the car down to Vårhallen where I had time to relax before I went out on my run from Tobiksvik to Borrby Strand.
Decided that I would run 5K and then 500 m walk.
When I left Simrislund I found where I should have run when I ran to Brantevik and then ran this part today closer to the water which was nice
Just before I got to Brantevik I got drizzle but it actually felt nice when it is a bit warmer
When I started my third 5K my weak me wanted to give up before 5K but all of a sudden I had run 2K and told myself that it is only 3K left and then I got to 3K, see only 2K and it was 1.5 and 1 and then I managed
It was suppose to start raining around 2 pm but it actually started earlier and for a short moment I thought that I might cut the distance but I didn’t mind this rain either and thought that it would stop later on.
When I got to Skillinge I saw a orange marker and was on my walking part when Wille showed up and wondered if I had given up and I told him no, just am walking my 500 m. He continued to Borrby Strand where he would meet me. I saw these yellow markers in plastic but felt that something was wrong when I would continue on the car road, turned back where I saw the last orange marker and when I turned down to the right there the next orange marker, when I crossed the street I missed it but then I was on the right path again. Felt nice when I had run at the side of the road and crossed the road and got closer to the water again
Now I started to get tired legs and have to mentally pep myself not to give up til I reached 20K to have my 500 m walk again. Checked where Wille was and thought that I was close and started to run before I had walked 500 m but it turned out it was a bit more.
Interesting was that the route continued on the beach but I had to take a detour because it was some branches in the way and I didn’t want to get wet shoes.
Here it was a heavy upwind plus it is tougher running on the beach and had to walk again, thought that I saw Wille and started to run again. Found out later that he had not walked down the beach.
More flatter run this time but close to the water which I liked a lot.
The mandatory swim in the ocead, was cold
Distance: 22.66K, time: 2.53.16 h, average heart rate: 145, average pace: 7.39 min/k, max pace: 6.0 min/k, cadence: 162, VO2 Max: 27 ml/kg/min
I have worked from home today and during the day the sun was out and I was looking forward to do my pulse based intervals with a blue sky and sunny. The original plan was to do hilly intervals since I do not have a pulse belt at the moment, I ordered a new one and it could take up to 8 days. To my surprise it knocked on my door and my new pulse belt was delivered 🙂
So of course I had to do pulse based intervals
Later it was grey and heard it was raining north from here and was hoping that it wouldn’t start raining here.
Temperature was 19oC (66.2F) and when I was stepping out on the balcony it felt a bit cold but decided for shorts and t-shirt but also brought two water bottles in my water belt.
During the 2K warmup it was drizzle but felt nice, not too warm, cooling down the temperature a bit and further up I saw a bit lighter sky 🙂
Tonite it was back to normal pulse based intervals, the first interval felt tough, felt that I was going on max and was at 154 for a longer time but then got up to 157 (my threshold pulse is 160). Difference now was that I could be at 158 and not get to 159 soon after that, that has happened lately. The first interval always feels the longest, I guess it is because you have 3 more to go.
Nice with 2 min rest where I walked and took a picture of those lovely sun flowers. I did have any money with me and even if I would it would have been difficult to run around with them 🙂
Second interval felt tough too, was at 152 for a longer time but then ended up at 157 and also was at 158 without getting to 159 very soon after that. Did not get up to 160 when I was running up to the school. Have a tendency to do so when it is a hill but know now that I have to slow down and then I am fine.
Rest for 2 min when I walked
Third intervals my leg wanted to come home fast, got to 157 much quicker and at two times I was looking away from the pulse watch a bit longer and saw 160 on my pulse watch and hoped that I hadn’t gone above 160.
2 min rest when I walked and then it was just one more to go.
The fourth interval was tough at the end, tired legs and felt that I was running in tar but finally it was over.
Walked first and then it started raining, much more than drizzle but it was warm rain so I did not mind, usually I do not like to run in the rain but when it is a bit warmer and it rains in the summer it cools things down.
1K cool down.
Distance: 11.50K, time: 1.16.34.4 h, average heart rate: 148, average pace: 6.39 min/k,
max pace: 5 min/k, cadence: 170, VO2 Max: 27 ml/kg/min
Finally an afternoon and evening without rain and now I could head out on my 12.5K run and I had decided that I would follow a route again with my Suunto pulse watch. Just in case it wouldn’t work I wore my apple watch where I was using the Strava application.
Saw that the temperature was 22oC (71.6F) and decided to wear my water belt with 2 water bottles and was glad I made that decision.
No back pain today and also felt I was doing good but once again the heat killed me again.
Tried to run as far as I could before I had to walk, that is tough because I felt it in my body, hoped I could make for 5K but had to stop earlier.
I had a hard time breathing in the beginning and removed my t-shirt under my flipbelt and water belt. It helped a bit, had to take off my t-shirt and run in my sports bra, felt running in my sports bra on a city run but it was also liberating.
Wet my hair a few times.
Was basically walking up the hillier parts of this run and then walked a bit after that to catch my breath.
Distance: 12.33K, time: 1.34.01.8, average pace: 7.37 min/k, max pace: 5.05 min/k, cadence: 154
The plan today was to run 8 intervals on St Hans hills but I was not sure how tired my legs would be after Thursday’s trail run. The hill that I would up on is approximately 500 m
Stil haven’t found my pulse belt.
Wore running shorts, linnen, water belt and flipbelt.
So I ran up to St Hans hills, rested a bit before I started my first run, oh boy that was a tough one, felt that I was going on max. Had to catch my breath on the top, drank some water and and then I did 5 pushups and ran down again. Decided that I would do 6 intervals.
Rested before my second interval, it was tough also but I was not as breathless on the top. Drank some water and did 10 situps and ran down again.
There were some other runners where 2 also did hilly intervals running.
Poor guy who was sitting on the top, it looked like he was trying to read something and I had to catch my breath every time I got to the top and had already heavy breathing during the last part of the interval.
This hill starts flat and gets steeper and steeper.
Rested and started my third interval and was very breathless when I got to the top, drank some water and then did 5 pushups. Ran down again.
Rested.
During the fourth interval I started to feel pain in my right knee. Did 10 situps on the top and ran down again.
I was thinking if I would try another interval but decided due to the knee issue that I would stop here so 4 intervals.
Had to walk when I ran home but glad I got out.
Distance: 7.13K, time: 1.01.20.6 h, average pace: 8.36 min/k, max pace: 5.15 min/k, cadence: 160
I gained some weight during vacation so this week I needed to do something about it.
Lost 1.5 kg this week. Hope for the same weight loss next week so I am back where I was before vacation. First goal is get under 60 kg this year.
#24 – 23.32K Trail Running
#25 – 4.30K Transport to train station
#26 – 3.60K Transport to home
Since the weather is going to be bad this evening, a lot of rain I decided to take the train and bus to Frostavallen and run a longer trail run.
The day started interesting, took the bus to the train station but the bus did not turn left on one street and I was wondering for a second if it was road construction but then I saw blue light from a police car and started to wondering, saw more blue lights from other police cars and streets were blocked. Thought that they were chasing a criminal that was hiding in an apartment since I also saw police men outside an apartment building.
Text messaged Wille and asked him if he had heard anything and he hadn’t but then he text messaged me back, turned out that a maniac had seen an unidentified object under his car and had driven his car to the police station and what the police had to do was to bring in the bomb squad to take a look at the object. I was glad I left town during the day.
Then I got yelled at by the bus driver when I was friendly helping out a passenger about tickets and decided to walk away to a seat, later that passenger thanked me for me being friendly.
Brought two bottles with water with me and started my run.
The goal today was to walk less and run up more hillier parts than last time.
Realized again that t-shirt was too hot so I had to take that off and run in my sports bra. Could finally breathe easier. Such a relief.
Even if it was hot that was a breeze from time to time.
I ran a detour when I got on white, did not pay attention where the next white marker pointed but the area did not seem familiar and turned back.
Then at one part of the route I am crossing the forest between two dirt roads but there they have cut a lot of trees so it does not look familiar anymore, am very familiar with this route and have had problems with following the route on my pulse watch. Walked here since it also are a lot of dry branches and needed to fint the right way, got a bit too far down to the left first and did not want to get more burned on these nasty plants called nettle
Turned back and finally I find the creek and the narrow path and got to the other dirt road.
It had grown a lot since I was here last time and got confused at one part and was not sure if I was on the right track and turned back, big mistake
Felt how it shorched bad on my calf and some on my under arm and cheek, saw a bee stuck on my calf and realized that I have gotten wasp bites. Waved away the nastiest one on my calf. Walked to feel if I had gotten a reaction or not but I seemed fine.
Had to stop and help a family telling them that they could swim at Dagtorps lake if they walked down the blue marker.
They have redirected the blue marker and decided to try the new part, otherwise I run to the right around Dagtorps lake.
Continued my run and then realized that I had to pass these
They did not look like ”normal” cows, I walked slowly and looked at them to make sure they would not attach me but they started to move away from me.
Was a bit warm so the heat ”killed” a bit this day and had to walk also because of the heat.
Was nice being back running in the woods and a longer trail run.
The transport back to the train station was warm and I drank the rest of the water and hoped that I would be able to fill those water bottles with cold water when I got to the train station.
Saw that a café was open and walked in and asked if the café man could be carnivorous and fill my water bottles with water and he had cold water in bottles in the refrigerator. He saved my day.
Drank cold water on the train and then got out at Stångby train station and ran back home.
Am now very tired in my legs and feet and will rest til Saturday when I plan to do hilly intervals.
Didn’t get my pulse belt after vacation, thinks it is left in the car.
Distance: 23.32K, time: 3.37.41.6 h, average pace: 9.19 min/k, max pace: 5.30 min/k, cadence: 150
Spending the day at the beach and watching paragliding.
Late lunch and then it was time for a 10K run. Had a plan. Would start on the beach. Run up the dune with pebble, continue on the country road til I had reached 5K and then turn around and run down the dune again and the beach and back to the hotel
Realized that the country road was a bit shorter than expected, I was not interested to run out on the bigger car road where there were no bike path on the side so instead I saw a gravelled and continued on that and hoped that I would get 5K but no such luck. Saw a narrow path and continued on that one and thought I would end up on the beach again
Got back on the beach and had to run 1700 m to get to 5K but it was tough so I got to 4.5K and turned around
The beach was basically fate except for some paragliders
Best is to run closer to the water where it is harder sand but this time I ran into quicksand and sank down, oh boy did I get extra sand into my shoes? 🙂
Got back on the second dune.
When I had run on the dirt road and would turn back on the beach I needed 300 m more and continued on the dirt road and turned back when I had reached 7.5K.
When I got back on the beach I needed 500 m extra and turned to the left and ran 500 m and back on the beach and ran on the beach til I had reached 9.5K and then ran back to the hotel.
Distance: 10.68K, time: 1.31.19.3 h, average heart rate: 142, average pace: 8.32 min/k, max pace: 5.47 min/k, cadence: 160, VO2 Max: 33 ml/min/kg
Our journey continued, being on the road today and when we finally arrived at the hotel I had to head out for a run.
I have been wanting to run on the beach but have not done this yet so tonite I did something very different
Headed towards the beach but turned then left on a road where it ended and I headed out on narrow paths towards the beach
Then I headed up on a hill and saw this view
And then it was time to head down to the beach and decided to run to the left til I had reached 2K
But I had to try to run up on a dune and I can say with regular running shoes is no piece of cake, I had to walk up. I got down on the beach but saw another path with smaller stones that I had to try and got down to a car road and then headed back
Got back on the beach and when I had reached 4K I had to run 1.5K to the right til I headed back. There were a lot of ”kite surfers” except that they were up in the air.
Tough to run on the sand but it was better closer to the water but from time to time I was chased by the waves 🙂
Then it was time to head back to the hotel.
Distance: 8K, time: 1.06.47 h, average heart rate: 152, average pace: 8.20 min/k, max pace: 5.33 min/k, cadence: 162, VO2 Max: 37 ml/kg/min
The original plan was to get up to Frostavallen and run a longer trail run but when I woke up and saw the weather it looked very unstable, changed the plan and decided to run the same route as last week but the whole, had to cut it last time due to rain.
Looked more stable when I started. To be on the safe side I wore capri tights, long sleeve with t-shirt under, flipbelt and waterbelt with 2 water bottles.
I was hoping that my left knee wouldn’t protest, am participating in a challenge where I have to put in more walking and it got to be too much for my left knee the other day so I have rested so I could run today.
In the beginning I had to take off the long sleeve due to heavy breathing but it did not get any better with t-shirt and was forced to walk, it might be that the long sleeve and t-shirt is under the flipbelt and waterbelt.
When I took out the t-shirt under the flipbelt and waterbelt it felt so much better.
Nice with some breeze from time to time.
Last week I was running up all hills and it felt great because this Spring I have walked up a lot of hills around Frostavallen.
So once again I ran up all hills and now I feel like a hilly runner again.
Then it was time to run to St Hans hills, I chose another way this time, was hoping I would find the right viaduct this time, was running around a neigborhood and finally I ran under the one I thought I did run under last week but realized afterwards that I was a bit further up, does not matter really 🙂
Got to St Hans hills and ran up all those hills, looked like it would start raining but it never did so I continued with the finish, here my right calf got tired so I had to do some walking due to that.
Distance: 20.69, time: 2.42.48.4 h, average heart rate: 144, average pace: 7.51 min/k, max pace: 5.46 min/k, cadence: 158, VO2 Max: 37 ml/kg/min
Weight loss since last week, some good news, been some serious walking this week besides running 🙂
