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#72

This is the second week after the race ”Double Death” (=Dubbeldöden), part of Kullamannen, November 3rd.

I decided to take one rest week the first week after, took two Yoga classes and had 60 minutes massage.

This week is was time to start running again, the original plan was to run 10K.

Had to run some errands after work but when I got back home I put on my running clothes and decided to use the headlight that I bought last year to use on the race Double Death, incredible headlight where u see way ahead of u and to the sides. There is one dark dirt road and then when I turn to the left on the asphalt there is no lights there either.

Felt that I had a good pace from the beginning, decided that I wouldn’t look at the watch, just let my legs decide what pace they wanted and go for it.

Stretched before I headed out, felt a bit in my right knee when I started the run but it disappeared. Some cars passed me when I was on the dirt road but felt that they saw me early.

When I had run more than half the route it started to rain and I decided to cut the distance, I have not have had a cold yet and not plan to have it either.

At the end I also felt a bit in my right knee but was not forced to stop. I get the feeling it is going in the right direction with Yoga now and massage twice.

This week I will go back to the gym twice a week instead of one and will see if that will do wonders.

Results

The cadence was 180 today, long time ago I saw that 🙂 I ran the whole route without stopping.

Weight report

– 0.35 kg from yesterday. I will keep up the good work, will be better when I get back on those trail runs.

#25

Since I am spending Midsummer on Österlen I decided that I would run the mandatory Midsummer run down to the beach.

Told Wille to start driving when I started the run, he would do some errands on his way to the beach, the comment was that it wouldn’t take that long.

We started approximately at the same time, he honk when he passed me.

I realized that I had a fast pace and was wondering if it would hold up all the way.

I passed another runner in SImrislund and said hi.

There were some activity down in the harbor. Some people had done some grocery shopping for Midsummer and was on their way back to the camping. Seem to be a popular way of celebrating Midsummer.

When I getting close to the beach someone honked again, Wille of course so it was good that he started about the same time as me.

Wow, the fastest flat run this year. Felt really good. Part of me wanted to stop but I was going to keep going, it would just take longer to get to the beach.

Lately it has felt great, last weekend I had a fast trail run and today I had a fast flat run. The goal this year is to come back as a ultra runner and get faster on those trail runs.