Etikettarkiv: ultrarunnercomeback

9.73K Short Run

#42

Originally I had planned to run this route yesterday but it looked like it was going to rain and it did at lunch time and it was cloudy. I also had been invitied to dinner and was thinking about it and decided that I would run the route today instead, in the morning it was chillier so I hoped that it wouldn’t be as hot as Tuesday but no such luck.

I wore running skirt, linnen, water belt and flipbelt.

Started the run and it did not take long til the heat hit my face. I decided to not look at my watch and instead try to run as long as I could til the body refused to run anymore and I got to approximately to 1K, walked 500 m and then ran again, decided that I would try to run at least 1K and got to 2.5K, didn’t need 500 m walk and started running earlier but would run til 4K, I had to mentally work with myself, part of me wanted to give up but I didn’t give up.

This pretty much sums up the route, if I did not need 500 m walking I would run those extra meters that I didn’t walk.

Wet my face and hair from time to time and drank water.

When I was close to home I decided that I would run all the way, funny how it is a mindset sometimes. You just decide that you are going to do it and then you just do.

Longing for the fall when the temperature will drop and it will be cooler and nicer to run.

Results

Weight Report

 

 

20.16K City Trail Run

#41

Once again a hot day.

After work I put on running skirt, linnen, ultra back pack with 1 liter water.

Started running and felt the heat straight away, hoped I would make it to 2K before I had to stop and walk but I had to stop already at 1K.

Started running again when I had catched my breath. Had to stop and walked til I have walked up the first hill on the dirt road.

It is interesting, the legs wants to run but the body cannot stand it. Sometimes the legs want to run fast and it last til the body says no.

The first half of the run was awful but I managed to run up all the hills, 4 of them on Klosterängens höjder which felt great.

 

Had some issues with my right knee also.

I was wondering how it would go when I got to St Hans hills where I would run one lap. Wanted to be able to run up on all the hills, last time there were some where I had to walk but today I ran up on all of them, that felt so great too.

Part of me wanted to cut the distance but at the end I decided that I would run the route that was originally planned.

At the grave yard came a car that drove slowly behind me, part of me thought that I would get kidnapped which made me run faster and also longer. Then I had to stop, had not seen the car but it showed up again and I started running again and turned right down to the narrow path at Vallkärra.

Hoped that I would finish under 2 hours and I actually did, at the end I had natural farlek.

Results

Weigh Report

 

28.3K Trail Run

#40

It was time to increase the distance today to approximately 30K which meant that I would add the foot path where there is a lot of heather.

With this heat that have hit Sweden I was not sure if I would experience the very purple color of there but I would run there at least.

When I opened the door in the morning it was cooler 🙂

On our ride to Christinehof I realized I had forgotten my pulse watch so we had to return back and I also could bring my hair brush to my back pack with  my chaning clothes afterwards.

It was very enjoyabe starting this run because it was cooler, it was a breeze.

It has been so WARM lately.

When I got to the meadow where I had experienced these hostile cows they were there but to the right and stayed there, I realized I ran so much faster over this meadow, I wonder why.

Did not experience any knee issue during the first part.

Passed some other runners and got a comment, oh another long distance runner 🙂

A lot of trekkers and on my way to Verkeån I heard someone whistling, I was so glad because otherwise I would not have heard this biker so I moved to the right.

 

On the meadow I did not see the very purple, more brown plants due to the heat.

At the end of this path I turn to the left and get on a narrow path but realized that they had put on a fence and let the path to the right but I still saw the blue marking on the other side of the fence ????? How would I get over, I could not get over the fence in the middle because it is a electrical fence but at the end it was a old stair, I was wondering if the steps would fall but they did 🙂

 

On the next meadow I had a close experience with some horses, one walked towards me and another horse, one of them started to press me 🙂

And another horse came up from a hill, they started to follow me but then they stopped.

Close to Haväng the heat came and I had a minor issue with my right knee.

I wet my hair and drank water and got finally to Haväng and had only approximately 5K left to the final destination.

Between Haväng and Vitemölla I try to get down to the water and wet my hair but today it was waves so it was tough wetting my hair, I gave up.

So nice to get to the final destination but my ride was not there with the cold water but saw that he was close, finally he showed up and I got my water and drank almost 1 liter before it was time for the mandatory and necessary swim in the water. Went in the water with my running gear.

I was surfing, the waves moved me forward.

Results:

 

 

 

12.4K Short Run

#39

The plan was to run my 12.5K run after work.

It was suppose to be warm today it was.

OH MY GOSH.

Put on linnen, running skirt, first I had decided to wear my water belt but changed my mind and was putting on my ultra back pack with 1 liter water.

It I was suffering yesterday it was worse today and the distance was shorter.

I hoped that I would be able to run approximately 3K I had to give up before 2K before I had to walk.

The legs wanted to run fast but the body gets exhausted.

I drank constantly and wet my hair but it did not help.

Felt so good to finally reach the final destination.

Weight report:

 

23.64K Trail Run

#37

Last Saturday I ran into a cow attack and was not satisfied that I had to do an detour on yellow because it is more flat.

On my way to Österlen I had a talk with my running friend who is a bull breeder. Wanted to know how to handle these heifers. That orange part is much hillier plus I have this hill that I finally ran up all the way so I wanted real badly to run on this orange marker.

Started the run at Christinehof and then I got on orange and felt ready to meet these heifers and conquer my fear.

When I got on the meadow I saw that the heifers were on the right and enough distance so I continued my run and they never bothered me 🙂

On the first half of the run I ran into issues with my right knee and had to do some walking.

Then when I got up on the hills just before I got to Brösarp I saw a choir member in the opposite direction PA was going to walk aa 36K route, we talked and went into opposite direction.

When I was on my way to Haväng I felt a breeze, so nice, even if I had to wet my hair multiple times this breeze was a saver so these 6K went just fine. I got to Haväng at 2.56, 11 minutes than the fastest run to Haväng from Christinehof so far.

Then I continued the run to Vitemölla. At a certain point I got to the beach and could wet my hair and face with colder water.

When I got out from the shadow I decided that I would run all the way to the parking lot, interesting how a decision can make u run all they way, last week I had several stops during this part and it was hot too.

Felt really good to make it all the way.

Then I ran/walked through the village, was hoping that I would get to the finish point before 3 h and 40 min and felt that that would happen and I did 🙂

Nice with the mandatory swim in the ocean afterwards

Results

Pulse Based Interval Training

#36

Always interesting doing pulse based intervals when having tired legs. Have experienced this earlier after running on Kullaberg and then 3-4 days later do pulse based intervals.

What  did not work last time when I started to do pulse based intervals for the first time since last year. Had forgotten about the training mode and chose ”Running” when I should have chosen ”Hilly intervals” which meant that I saw the pace instead of pulse on my pulse watch and doing pulse based intervals on a feeling does not work. You have no idea what pulse you have.

So today I would choose the correct training mode so I could do this properly.

Glad I chose to wear linnen, wore the water belt and flip belt this time.

First it was 2K warmup where I had to calm down to get the pulse down, try to be around 132 but was over a couple of times.

Then it was time for the first interval and it happened the same thing that always happen when I have tired legs. Takes a long time to get up to 157, on the intervals you are going to be a couple of heart beats below your threshold pulse which is 160 in my case. It seems that I won’t get up to 157 but it is better to be lower than over 160, that cannot happen. But finally I got up to 156-157.

Decided to walk on the 2 min rest to catch my breath.

Then on the second interval I got to 157 a bit faster and that is normal when I have tired legs. I have learned that I have a tendency to increase the pace and heart beat when I run up a hill so I have learned that I have to slow down instead and then I am fine. Did not get over 160 🙂

Walked on the 2 min rest

The first interval is the toughest, then I know that I have 3 more to go.

But when I start the third interval it starts to feel better because now I have only one interval left before the pain is over, it is hate love over intervals. Pulse based intervals suits me better but they are still intervals.

On the third interval I got up to 158 very quickly, then it is time to calm down to get down to 156-157 but I got up to 159-160 but never over 160 so this intervals was the best and I think it also is normal.

Then it was finally time for the last interval. Unfortunately it got a bit scary. The same thing happened here, I got fast up to 159 and tried to slow down and then I was up on 180, rushed up just like that and it took quite some time before I got down to 143 and then I got back up to 157.

The cool down got to be a bit longer since I am participating in a challenge where I needed to get 13K on this run to be able to get over 17K, it is July 17th today. Also felt good to have a longer slower cool down after that scary last interval.

Results:

 

Weight Report:

20.38 City Trail Run

#35

Last week when I ran this route I had to cut the distance due to rain.

At lunch it started to rain and according to the weather report it was suppose to rain the whole afternoon. Oh no. The best would be if I could run my longest run Tuesday. Lucky me the rain stopped and when I biked home from work it was cloudy but not grey.

Decided to wear my linnen, shorts, ultra back pack so I had plenty of fluid to drink and wet my hair if I wanted to.

Started my run and it was not too hot in the beginning, managed to run to the first hill part where I always walked. I had issues with the water, hardly came out anything, knew that I had set the water bladder correctly so it was a good idea to stop just before it was time to walk. Turned out that I had not pushed the tube enough and fixed that issue, so much nicer when I got water flowing into my mouth.

I had tired legs so it would be interesting to see how I would manage the hills.

Ran into a smaller knee issue and decided to stop and walk for a while to get the knee feeling better.

Then it was time to run up the first steeper longer hill at Klosterängens höjder, so far I had been able to run up all the way but just below the top my legs did not want to run anymore. Stood at the top to catch my breath.

 

Then it was time for the second hill where I could run up all the way 🙂

Stood and enjoyed the view and catched my breath a little before it was time to run down on the other side.

Stood still at the bottom for a short moment and hoped that I would be able to run up all the way on the third hill and I did 🙂

On my way to St Hans hills I had to stop and walk a few times due to both the heat and knee issue.

Still no grey clouds indicating it would start raining.

Got to St Hans hills and ran up the first hill, walked after that.

Ran up almost all the way on the second hill but had to stop and walk just below the bottom. Before that hill I had a horse and rider in front of me and they were getting up on that hill. Hoped that they would have gotten enough up before it was time for me to run up the hill, do not like to come behind a horse where it is narrow but they were up before I got up.

Then I managed to run up the short steeper hills and was curious about the circle hill. I couldn’t run up all the way on the second hill and I was not surprised.

Then on the hill in the grove I had to walk on the hill at the end.

But then I just decided that I would run up all the way on the ”Murder” hill and I did it, what a great feeling.

Still no indication that it would start raining so I decided that I wouldn’t cut the distance.

Some more walking before I got back home, hoped that I would get under 3h and I actually did it. Glad I could run the original route that I had planned.

Results:

 

Weight report:

 

25.2K Trail Run

#34

Since it was going to be a warm Saturday I had decided that the car would leave at the latest 8 am.

Got up 15 min earlier, started with brushing my teeth, clean my face and put water in the water bladder and sports drink in the soft flask before I ate breakfast.

Turned out to be a good thing, had time to stretch longer and we wer actually out of the door before 8 am 🙂

This time I did not forget to put on my pulse watch.

Actually it was a bit colder when I started my run and was hoping it wouldn’t get too hot.

Got on orange marker, everything was fine til I got out on a meadow where I realized it was cows there, had not been any animals there before. I thought I would be just fine til they started to move towards me, oh no. I told them that I am just going to pass you and continue my run and all of a sudden they ran down the meadow and I thought that they were scared of me and thought that they would stay where they were but now they got back, gave me the evil eye. It was long way til I would get to the other side, this did not feel good so I backed back watching them and when I thought that I had a distance that was close enough to the stair I ran fast and got back on the other side of the wall.

Text message Wille and informed me that it would take a bit longer because of the cow attack and have to run back on yellow to get ahead of the meadow.

When I got on yellow I saw cows on the right and thought oh no, no more cow attacks but they stayed where they were 🙂

The first half of the run was fine. When I got to the rest room at the rest area and finally it was cold water so I could wet my face the regular way.

Felt that it started to get warm.

So the last 6K to Haväng I wet my face 4-5 times.

Friendly cows by the way.

When I started the run between Haväng and Vitemölle I got down to the water to wet my face and hair to cool off, felt SO good.

When I ran between Haväng and Vitemölla I had a good pace but had to stop from time to time and walk but finally I got to the finish point and once again stepped into the water with my clothes on. Before that Wille had brought cold water in the car and I drank most of it.

Results

Then a lovely lunch at Ingelsta Kalkon

 

10.03K Short Run

#33

After work I had decided that I would run a 10K run, yesterday I changed my mind and decided that 12.5K would be the route but then I changed my mind again and decided that 10K would be fine.

It was hot when I biked home so it was running skirt, linnen, water belt and flip belt.

It was warm from the beginning but if I wet my hair I was fine, it is so important to wear water belt or have a ultra back pack with a water bladder so you can drink and/or wet your hair in the summer when you are not close to the water.

At approximately 4K I ran into a knee issue and was forced to walk and had to do that from time to time after that.

Still I ended up with a pretty good time.

I am doing a test this week, hope that by running Wednesday before Saturday will get my right knee in shape. I do not want to run into a major knee issue on Saturday when I will run my longest run.

 

16K City Trail Run

#32

It was a bit more grey when I biked home from work, even if it was talk about rain I decided to head out on my 21K city trail run.

Put on shorts, linnen, Brooks running shoes, ultra back pack.

When I got outside I was wondering if linnen would be too cold but decided to keep the linnen on.

Started to run but after a short moment I realized that I had forgottten my mobile and had to turn back to get it.

It was much nicer, not this heat as last week, was enjoying the run, no issues with my right knee but felt a bit in my left knee and hoped it would´t be an issue later.

Ran all the way til the street that goes uphill and walked again.

Then I got to Klosterängs höjder where I ran up two hills, was very breathless when I got up on the first one and had to catch my breath, was a bit less breathless on the second one, stood and enjoyed the view and then continued the run.

This time I was able to run up all the way on the third hill and then tried to run a bit faster up on the fourth hill.

Earlier I have been running into problems on my way to St Hans hills but this time I managed to run without any issues, thanks Brooks.

Ran up on the first hill on St Hans and had to catch my breath and ran the rest of the lap.

It started to rain a bit, just drops which was nothing and decided that I would head back on my 5K country route on my way back but when I turned back it started to rain a lot and the decision was made, I was going to cut the route to a 16K instead, of course it stopped after a short moment but when I was almost home it started to pour again.

Very satisfied with the route, very satisfied with my new running shoes. Very comfortable.

Weight report