I wanted to have ”dress” rehearsal before my first ultra race in December. Asked Åke and Lars if they wanted to herding me around 40K in a comfortable pace and that I was going to find the markers and they said yes. So this morning I took the train up to Höör where Åke picked me up at the train station and we drove to Lars ”Tjörnarparen” and Robert and Conny would join us too.

On the train I had time go through some songs for the choir’s 25 anniversary concert next week.

In Stehag we had to get off the train and take a bus to Höör and also on the bus I had time to go through more songs. I got a cold in the beginning of the week and had not been able to sing Had done everything in my power to get rid of the cold so I can sing next week and that I could run this weekend

So here we are before we started this wonderful long hilly run, we look very fresh. I am surrounded by guys who are very familiar with these surroundings.

We strated the run from Tjörnarp where the ultra race will start so I got to run the beginning of the race and find the yellow markers, both on the wooden posts and the extra yellow markers. There was one place where I was not paying attention where I turned left but should run up in the woods, on the other hand it was a fence further down 🙂

I have realized that when I am a bit tired if an Arrow shows that I have to run straight, I interpret that it will be left instead, it happened on this run and there was another person who admitted that he also could do the same thing, felt nice to hear that I was not alone 🙂

 

During this run some of us (not me) put up the extra yellow markers and we also came to the same place as last week when we got disoriented. we got too far to the left but now we let Åke take the lead and show us the way.

We also discussed the fuel stations and Lars thought that most of us would get tired around 30K and at that fuel station it will be served candy and other energizers and he was so right. At 30K my legs started to get tired but I still could run 🙂

October 19th Roger and I got disoriented and today the guys let me be in the front to see if I would run the correct way this time and I DID IT!

At 35K it started to get really tough and I was glad it was only 5K left but I was so wrong. I had not been part of the discussion and talked with Robert who informed that the run would be longer than 40K, first I did not believe him and shouted to Lars, are we going to run 45K, are you serious????? There was a miscalculation and I found out that yes it will be 45K. Good thing with this was that I would get the experience what would happen on the last 10K. I also realized that I would become a ultra runner which was big for me 🙂

The last 5K was really tough, I got the tip to get everything that I got left to put in my system because my legs was VERY TIRED so the second Snickers was eaten, all my disgusting Enervit orange flavor sports drink. I gave Åke my bag with ”Jägarsnus” (raisings, peanuts and chocolate) because he looked beaten and he got the energy back.

The last 1.8K was torture and I had to take out ”pannbenen” (= bull by its horn)

No one of us had been running longer than a marathon before so after this run we all became ultra runners :-). I am glad for the total time in those woods. We all agreed that we all will run the last 5K in December (finish the ultra race), the speed will definately be slower and the time that I think I will finish with seems to be quite accurate.

The company was great today and I was glad to hear that Lars had never felt so fresh, last weekend most of the ”snabbfotarna” (=fast footers) was tired when they increased the speed.

Total distance: 45K , total time: 5.53.15 h, average speed: 8.55 min/k, max speed: 5.40 min/k