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.
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.
So it was time for my first pulse based intervals this year.
The temperature dropped a bit which was nice, it was not too hot.
The training consists of 2K warm up, 4x2K intervals with 2 min rest between. 1K cool down.
During those 2 min you can choose to stand still, walk or jog and if it is not too hot I always jog.
During the intervals I am going to be a couple of heart beats under my threshold pulse which is 160.
Started the warm up but nothing moved on my pulse watch, what??? Realized that I had not started something on my pulse watch so I did, off I went 🙂 So now I had maybe been running 300 m ahead. Did not start all over.
When it was time for my first interval I could not see any pulse on my pulse watch just pace and I was thinking that I had chosen the wrong exercise on my pulse watch. Interesting with pulse based intervals when you have to go on a feeling. Tough Tough. Felt that I was running on max and I was above 6 min/k but I also got under on the first interval. Breathless.
Jogged for two minutes and started again, now I had to do some detours to reduce these extra 300 m otherwise I would run into problems when I was on my third interval. Seemed to have managed but could started jogging before 2K, ran about 300 m shorter, I was just too exhausted.
2 min jogging again where I had to do ”slalom” between some kids who were walking on the bike path 🙂
It felt that it got slower and slower for each interval, definately not a good start but I was doing intervals and it will be more.
The first two intervals are the toughest but when I am starting on my third I know that I just have one left.
Finally I ran my last interval but it was so tough so I started jogging before I had finished these 2K’s, then I thought that I would have 2K warmup when it was just 1K (which I realized at the end).
THen i was thinking about why I had not seen any pulse and realized once again that it is based on which mode I am choosing on my pulse watch and an auto had chosen Running when I should have chosen intervals or hilly intervals. I will do better next time for sure. No point doing pulse based intervals if you cannot follow your pulse.
