#7 – 23.19K Trail Run
#8 – 4.37K Transport back to train station

Today is Sweden’s National Day so I am off work.

Decided to have my long run today so I woke up at 6.35 am, had breakfast and then took the train and bus to Frostavallen, one of my favorite trail run places.

Last time I ran a train run it was 17K and I decided I would be tough on myself and run the middle part of Tjörnarparen, a 23K trail run.

This time I did not forget my pulse watch 🙂

It was a bit cold in the morning so I put on a long sleeve over my t-shirt.

It was a while since I ran this route this time and I was nog going to follow the route since it will only register 600m and then all the values will be messed up. I ran this earlier this year before I went on vacation in February and have not run it since then.

I passed some trekkers in the beginning.

Last time I was here they had cut trees at some places so it was a lot of climbing over this trees but now the trees was gone.

There is one part where they also had cut trees, after the Osteria you come on a dirt road and then turn left into the woods to get over to another dirt road. Here I ran into some issues so it was common sense that had to be used, first I got a bit too much to the left but realized I was not at the right place and then trying to find the narrow path could I forget, first I was actually going in the right direction but went to the left and got out on the dirt road a bit further down.

I had to go to the toilet and inspected if the wasps were gone and they were gone.

Today it was a bit warm in the beginning so I took off the long sleeve, run up those hills that I have decided to run up on.

After a while it was a breeze and if felt nice

It is so nice to run in the woods by yourself and hear the birds singing.

Somewhere I heard a strange bird song, was not sure if it was a woodpecker or maybe a pheasant, did not have time to found out 🙂

I passed two dogs and four dog walkers on the first dirt road

Since I am still a bit heavier it was tough running up hills and the heat so I had to walk from time to time but tried to get back to running as fast as I could.

Then I passed the same two dogs and four dog walkers and said hi again 🙂

It was very nice seeing all these different flowers around the route.

Today I decided I would run up a hillier part on the last dirt road before Djuarlidsbacken (Djuralids hill) and I did it 🙂

I was not hoping it would take 4 hours to finish this route, well one positive thing would be that I could take the bus back but I didn’t really want to do that since I needed to those extra k’s.

It was nice at the end knowing it was not so many k’s left before the run would be done

No dip in the lake this time either but maybe nex time.

Distance: 23.19K, time: 3.44.16.1 h, average heart rate: 129, average pace: 9.40 min/k, max pace: 5.33 min/k, cadence: 142, VO2 Max: 25 ml/kg/min

Then it was time to head back to the train station, decided not to wait for the bus for 15 min, on my way back to the train station I passed the bus and was hoping that I would get back to the train station before the bus. Missed the two trains that I usually goes back with and then had to wait 40 minutes for the next one.

Transport back took 38.44.5 min.

Lost 0.6 kg this week.