#23

The plan was to spend the weekend on Österlen and yesterday I was waiting for my ride. Got a phone call that the car got a flat tire. The second call informed me that it woudln’t be any Österlen this weekend since the flat tire could not get fixed til Monday. Had to do some replanning and has just gotten outside of my door when I got the third call telling me that the flat tire could be fixed yesterday 🙂

So I was so glad that I would be able to run the route that i did this morning.

TIme again to hit the trails again on Österlen.

Would increase the distance to 18K and decided that I would start from Alunbruket and follow the orange marker til the last 6K when I would change to yellow marker. Yellow has too much dirt roads with smaller stones on it in the beginning while the orange is in the woods and narrow paths, a dirt road that is ok, reguarl one but the last 6K is on dirt roads and asphalt.

What a great day I have had.

Sunny when I started but not too sunny and not too warm. My body was with me.

Ran up the first hill 🙂

There is one hill in the beginning which I do not run up on because it too much loose sand.

It so great to feel so much stronger and lighter even if I still need to loose a few more pounds. I do not know if the pneumonia has made my lungs stronger or what it is. I remember that last year I was more of a walker than a runner, was more walking. Now  I ran most of the time, still have some hills that I AM going to run up on all the way this summer.

After the first part of wood running it was cloudy and cooler and a very nice breeze.

Realized what all the wet had done to some dirt roads, it was new sand on them.

I had sad the run would take 2.5-3h and was so glad that it took less than that, it shows how much better I am now than last year and I want to keep up the good work, increase the distance and get faster. That is my goal this year. Now I feel I am a runner finally.

Ended the run with the mandatory swim even if it was a bit colder but it is always nice with a swim to cool off.