I have decided that I will do Yoga once a week and tonite I challenged myself with YinYoga where you stand in each positilon 4-5 minutes.
Good again to do the Standing dog where I at the same time stretch my calves.
I got to do my favorite Yoga position The Dove/the pigeon/the swan which is good for the gluteus.
Saturday I will run a 44K trail race and the week after that I always do Yoga twice plus massage, I have booked one hour because I will have a very tired body and need massage probabaly on my back as well.
I started the year with pneumonia and have been working on coming back after that. Started running in April after a rough cold in February.
During the summer I experiencedissues with my right knee.
Usually I have experienced that and then that issue has gone away but it continued.
Then I decided that I have to run pain free and got in touch with Lisah Hamilton who recommended me to talk with Rich and had a conversation with him. Great talk where I got to think a lot.
What has happened is that I started to commute to Älmhult beginning of 2016 and had to reduce my training to survive, not be able to do Yoga before work.
After Älmhult I started my job in Malmö and still did not do Yoga, could run at lunch time on Mondays either on my own or with colleagues.
Got a new assignment where I felt I could not run during lunch time.
Changed Consulting company, love my new assignment but could not run at lunch time and reduced my gym to once a week.
Have done massage once in a while.
During my talk with Rich it was clear to me that I had to go back to being at the gym twice a week, since I have not been good at stretching this summer, have streched but not long enough, I had made a decision to go back to Yoga again and RIch mentioned massage reguarly. Plus I have decided that I will run at lunch time every other Monday and after work every other Friday after work.
This week I went to my first Yoga class after a long absence and it felt so good. Was a fantastic class for me as a runner, some very good stretches for runners, a lot of planks, the dove etc. I am going to do Yoga once a week and after my race in November it will will be two times the week after to stretch out a lot, which is needed after a tough trail race.
So I have sceduled Yoga next week.
Went to a 30 minutes massage before work this morning and got a good masseur. Both my calves were stiff but more on my left calf, hurt a lot but I can take it, stiff on the back of my right knee and stiff on my right hip.
The masseur gave me a new exercise that involves my foot and suggested foamrolling which I will continue with everyday from tomorrow.
Decided to wear wool sports bra, wool long sleeve, regular tights, regular socks.
Lately my legs have been wanting to run fast, I should take it easy when it is rest weeks 🙂 but my legs have not listened. So I got up a fast pace from the beginning and had to catch my breath and walk for a short moment. Back to running again and fast pace again, needed to walk for a short moment.
The positive thing was that I did not have any knee issue tonite. I felt some pain in the beginning but it disappeared.
Results
Weight report
Happy with the weight today. This is where I hoped I would be at for the last couple of weeks.
Tonite it was time to run this night run with the headlight that I am going to use on the second lap on the race.
I was suppose to get up to Tjörnarp and run with my running buddy Lars but he could not make it so I decided to find a route out in the country close to where I live. Remembered that I and another running buddy of mine, Eva, we had run a run during the day out in the country where there were no street lights.
I had just run once and was not 100% sure where I would run, found the route on Movescount and studied the map and imported the route to my pulse watch earlier this weekend.
Put on my headlight and reflective vest, thought it was needed.
Started to run, interestering with running at nite is that I can followo the route on my pulse watch without using the inverse light but it goes off very quickly so I had a much tougher time on the bike streets to find the route, had to stop a couple of times to see if I was heading in the right direction.
Finally I find this narrow path between the two fields, pitched dark and now I could finally follow the route due to the fantastic headlight that I invested in last year, Lumonite Air 1500. The light is wide so I can see on the sides and far ahead of me which makes me calm. I also got up the speed when I ran in the dark.
I was glad I decided to wear the reflective vest because when I got out on a dirt road I saw on a distance a car that turned down on this road. With a strong headlight, reflective vest and reflectives on my compression tights the car could see me in the dark.
Felt some pain in my knee at the end of the route otherwise I was fine. Was breathless in the beginning probabaly because I felt the tiredness after the tough trail run this weekend. At the end I had a good pace and could run longer without stopping and walk too much.
Results
Weight report
This was a bummer but hope for better results later this week.
Some weeks ago we got the PM from Kullamannen and the route had been decided. One week later I read that Länsstyrelsen (=county government) that Nimis would be a no-go zone which meant that the race cannot be at the stone part to Nimis and up Nimis. The people who are arranging this race had a 72h email conversation and had to come up with a new route.
Today it was time to head up to Kullaberg and run this new route, I had plan to run on Kullen this Saturday but now had to run the new route of course.
Got the route from Kullamannen himself.
Took the train and bus up there, put on wool sports bra, wool long sleeve, compression tights, gloves and the jacket I will wear in November. It is colder in the morning and it can be cold in the morning when you get to Kullen. Better to be able to take off clothes if I get too warm then being cold from the beginning and not be able to something about it.
This year they are renovating the harbor where the start and finish has been so the start and finish for the race I am going to run will start at a hotel so I walked up there. Started running, the start will be tougher, it goes uphill very shortly after the start and then I got to the regular part that has not been changed.
It did not take long til I felt too warm and had to take off my jacket. I also realized that I had not attached the water bladder properly and had to stop and fix that too.
It felt good to know that I am so much better prepared. I was running up on some hills and walked on the more challenging or at least tried to run up on them and then have to stop and walk but that is fine with me.
I passed the narrow path where we had run down to get to the stone part that we won’t run down on this year and continued further down on the dirt road and then continued down on another dirt road.
Got down to the water and realized that someone else was also testing running this route, we pulled our heads together to find the path to continue on. This guy had run the same race as me last year and had also thrown in the towel. He disappeared and then I was alone again, was not sure if I was on the right path turned around and now came two other runners who also were testing the new route so we were running on the route together for a moment and then I was on my own. Nice to collaborate to find the correct way. Realized that I now had gotten to the bottom wher the stone part starts but now would get up on that part where we have heading now earlier. It will be a tough part on the race and after that it was off road. I loved it. Got a bit confused but all of a sudden saw a pattern that I could follow.
Thought that I had gotten to Håkullen but was on the top before Nimis.
Then I was back on the regular route again when I had passed Nimis on the top.
I was so happy that I did not have to walk due to a knee issue, only had to walk because I had tired legs or too breathless after running up a hill.
It was a bit windy when I got to the light house and had to take it easy to not blow away.
I was not dressed for the weather but it is not easy to know how to dress, it can be very cold in the morning and then get warmer or stay cold. So I got a bit over warm. I had told Wille that I might not swim in the ocean afterwards but then informed him that meet me at the beach because I am a bit over warm and need to cool down after the run.
Wandered a bit off but it was not too long. I stopped at the beach and probably had 1K left to the finish line. This is going to be a great race this year, am glad not to have this long stone part and love the off road part a lot. It will as tough but more off road and narrow paths. It is going to be interesting how we runners will behave, we will be many who will run and some need to pass from behind because they are faster and how we will deal with that.
Results
Weight report:
Have not been satisfied with my weight this week. Hope that next week will be better.
Decided that I needed more total altimeter plus it has started to be more cold in the summer cottage.
This Saturday I decided I would run my 40K trail run from Tjönarp to Frostavallen.
Put myself on the train and got out on Tjörnarp train station and started my run.
Realized it was a while since I started from Tjörnarp, most of my trial runs in this area have started from Frostavallen this year.
This can happen sometimes on these trail runs
Just needed to find a way around all of these trees laying on the ground.
Needed to take off my windstopper because I got too warm.
When I got to the loop I got totally confused, what had happened. Last time everything was just normal but know they had cut a lot of trees, the area looked completely different. I realized that I had gotten more to the left, thought a path was the path to the loop but turned out that it was not, was wondering where is the loop and all of a sudden it was just in front of my face 🙂 what????? It was totally overgrown, seems to me that this summer has messed things up, now everything is green and this overgrown is usually in the spring but the loop has not been this overgrown before. It was walking in a jungle. All of a sudden I heard voices on the other side and realized for the first time that there were other runners running on Tjörnarparen, which was a first. Later they passed me, one of them would run Tjörnarparen.
I started to have issues with my right knee and had to walk.
Also hunters were out.
I said hello to a little puppy who was out for a walk.
After Osterian I run on a dirt road and then I cross the forest to get to a path, have run here many times, end up getting a bit off track but always find this path but today I got totally brain drop. All of a sudden I was in a forest and did not know where I were, lucky me I had a backup of the route in my pulse watch, after some wandering around I ended up on the dirt road again and told myself to get a grip and take it more slowly this time but ended up off track again, had to get my frustration out and then I finally find the path and continued my run. Realized that I had run 4K extra and had to cut the distance. Would be fine because it would be 4K back to Höör and then I would walk back home which would be some extra k.
This was the most frustrating route so far. Don’t know what was going on. But I think I am just fine before the race in November.
Weight report
Have not been happy with my weight this week so hope for a better week next week
