32.64K Trail Run | Gabby's Challenges

#63

Decided that I needed more total altimeter plus it has started to be more cold in the summer cottage.

This Saturday I decided I would run my 40K trail run from Tjönarp to Frostavallen.

Put myself on the train and got out on Tjörnarp train station and started my run.

Realized it was a while since I started from Tjörnarp, most of my trial runs in this area have started from Frostavallen this year.

This can happen sometimes on these trail runs

Just needed to find a way around all of these trees laying on the ground.

Needed to take off my windstopper because I got too warm.

When I got to the loop I got totally confused, what had happened. Last time everything was just normal but know they had cut a lot of trees, the area looked completely different. I realized that I had gotten more to the left, thought a path was the path to the loop but turned out that it was not, was wondering where is the loop and all of a sudden it was just in front of my face 🙂 what????? It was totally overgrown, seems to me that this summer has messed things up, now everything is green and this overgrown is usually in the spring but the loop has not been this overgrown before. It was walking in a jungle. All of a sudden I heard voices on the other side and realized for the first time that there were other runners running on Tjörnarparen, which was a first. Later they passed me, one of them would run Tjörnarparen.

I started to have issues with my right knee and had to walk.

Also hunters were out.

I said hello to a little puppy who was out for a walk.

After Osterian I run on a dirt road and then I cross the forest to get to a path, have run here many times, end up getting a bit off track but always find this path but today I got totally brain drop. All of a sudden I was in a forest and did not know where I were, lucky me I had a backup of the route in my pulse watch, after some wandering around I ended up on the dirt road again and told myself to get a grip and take it more slowly this time but ended up off track again, had to get my frustration out and then I finally find the path and continued my run. Realized that I had run 4K extra and had to cut the distance. Would be fine because it would be 4K back to Höör and then I would walk back home which would be some extra k.

This was the most frustrating route so far. Don’t know what was going on. But I think I am just fine before the race in November.