#60

Last weekend I ran one lap on Kullaberg and this weekend it was time for a longer trail run on Österlen.

Yesterday the storm Knud hit Sweden. I had a gig with my choir at lunch time, had a lovely upwind when I biked to the city and it was warm on my way up back to work. Lucky me I got back before the rain started. I was also lucky I did not have to take the bus down to Östelen, Wille picked me up at work but on my way to the car I got my shoe in a puddle, did not see it, I tried to get to the car as fast as I could, did not have any umbrella 🙂

There was talk the storm would stay over the weekend. It was windy at lunchtime but  nothing flew in front of me. It was windy on our down to Österlen, got a beginning water planing and some rain. I heard the rain during the nite and hoped it wouldn’t a rainy run today.

This morning I decided to put on my capri tights and t-shirt and I got a ride to Alunbruket, when I stepped out of the car I felt the cold and decided to change to long sleeve and I was glad that I did that.

It does not take long til I get to a short steep hill and have to walk a short distance after I have run up the hill and I felt the cold, my feet was cold and I hoped that I wouldn’t freeze for the rest of the day.

It did not take long til I got warm, at one point I felt that the long sleeve was a bit too warm and was thinking that I would change to the t-shirt that I put in the dry bag in my ultra back pack but then the cold wind hit me again so the long sleeve stayed on. I rolled up the arms from time to time and wet my hair a few times.

On the meadow there was no cows 🙂

I continued running in the forest and minding my own business and all of a sudden I saw two cows, what? Where did they come from, there have not been any cows in the forest before.

When I had run up the hill that I decided to run up all the way I was breathless, which I have been on all the runs before, had to drink but could not swallow, that was a first.

Another interesting thing that happened was that at one place, North Brösarps hill, at a long distance I saw cows jumping down a hill, was wondering what was going on. When I got down to the first valley I saw a bunch of cows walking in their pasture, seemed that that was a leader, realized that they were passing Skåneleden where I was running so I had to make a detour to the left, keep a distance from the cows is a good advice. Further up there was a cow who was bellowing, some cows had not followed the crowd and further up to the left there were cows who still were there who started running to get to the crowd, first I had to stop, did not want to come in their way but saw that I could continue before they came in my way, now another cow was also bellowing to the rest of the cows further up.

Today it was the most windy run so far and the positive thing was that I did not want to walk too long because then I got cold 🙂

Passed some trekkers.

When I got to Haväng I thought that it would be best to stay away from the water, I thought it would be more windy there.

 

 

The first 10K took 1.30h so I hoped that I would be able to run 20K around 3h and I made it in 2.58h 🙂 there was hope.

When I got to Vitemölla it would be asphalt all the way to Stenshuvud but I kept going with trying to walk short and run longer.

The question was if it would rain or not. When I left it was blue sky and not anything grey so I thought that I would be safe but when it was 1K left it started to drizzle which was ok.

After my 35K run I had 1K walking and just before I had to pass the car road to get over near the golf club it started to rain a bit more, got wet, was on my way to fix the syncing over to my mobile app, the phone got wet so I had to put it back in my ultra back pack.

Knew that Wille was already at Vik, was not sure if I would take a dip in the ocean or not but since it was unsteady weather, raining back and forth I decided that I would not take a swim in the ocean so I had to do a pick shower (=raggardusch) with wipes.

It felt that I still was tired after the run on Kullaberg even if the pain has stopped at the sides of my thighs, it was tough running up on the hills and even if I had some knee issues I was satisfied with the run. Hoped it would be shorter than last time