Today I was going to be in charge of a long distance run with a group from Coach K Runners . I have only run solo before.

When I woke up this morning at 7.40 I filled two bottles with water and put them in the refrigerator and then mixed the sports drink. New flavor today. Decided to buy Maxim Tropical now when my Lemon & Lime was empty.

Ate breakfast and then it was time to stretch and put liniment on my right knee and left M. Gluteus maxmimus. Met up with 9 other people outside the little grocery store.

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It looked like it was going to be a warm and humid day. We started with running up to St Hans hills and ran two laps on the new trail alignment. It was warm and sweaty up there, lucky there are parts in the shadow that cools you down. Then out on my 8k run. For a short period of time it was a bit cloudier and cooler but then the heat was back. We thank the farmer that had a water hose outside his farmhouse so some people in the group could fill up their water bottles with fluid. I drank every k and cool my head with water when it was needed.

We got back to Lund and up on the hills again two laps. At the end everybody else was faster than me so the last 4.5k was torture for me, It was time to take out ”pannbenen”. (=Grab the bulls by its horns). I hade decided that today I was going to run the whole run if I didn’t run into issues with my knee or M. Gluteus maximus. The last two laps did not go fast but at least I ran and then it was only 2k back to the finishing line.

When I got back home I went straight to the shower and chilled me down. Slowly I became myself again after 1 liter of H2O, 1 liter of coke and 250 ml of chocolate drink.

Total distance: 26k and total time: 3.11 h. Reached my goal to run 25k before Lidingöloppet. I have at least 3 more 25k runs before the race which should not be a problem.