#22 – 50 runs in 100 days – Winter edition

The original plan was to go with Coach K Runners to Fulltofta and run a trail run but UPS fetched my pulse watch yesterday to make a trip to Finland, have problems with following the route and that is what I would be able to do in Fulltofta, I have a 20K route there but have to have my pulse watch to follow it (a mix of different routes combined) plus I needed a bit longer route to get ready for the long run next week and also burn off the extra pounds I carry nowadays.

So I changed my mind and decided to run ”Lund Runt” a 27K run around the outskirts of the city, a nice run, you see a lot.

Up 7.30 and got away before 8 am. I thought it would be a great idea to bring my charger too just in case my mobile would die. Have to use it today to get the route registered.

Thought it was raining but it was just rain in the air, grey, cloudy and foggy.

When I got to dammarna there were a lot of different birds for a change, not just swans and mallards (gräsänder), I heard a popping sound, I asked the birdwatcher if it was a birdsound and I learned that it was the sound from a coot (sothöna). Birdwatchers were at the dammarna today.

Fun to see Amanda and Irma (dog) coming running towards me and a second time too. I felt like a heffalump (heffaklump) today, upwards was just bad so I had to walk plus there were some ice parts at the dammarna where I had to walk too.

After 10K the issues started, I started to feel pain in my right knee and right groin and had to walk from time to time.

At around 14K I decided to check my mobile and lucky me I had the charger, the battery was low so I put in the mobile in the charger. Decided to cut the distance, even if it won’t too much cutting but less hilly.

When I was on my way to Sony I saw a horse on the bike path that had chosen to be on the outside, no way I would pass the horse from behind on the inside so I ran across the road to the other side.

At the end I just wanted to come home. I realized when I started to run faster I did not run into the knee and groin issue. At the last walking and it was a couple of k’s left I told myself that now you run all the way home without stopping.

Even if it felt like a shitty run I was glad I got out. Had brunch afterwards at home and good coffee

I thought that I was so much slower with the longer walks but was surprised about the finish time so I must have some faster moments 🙂

Distance: 26.1K, time, 3.08.14 h, average heart rate: 131, average pace: 7.13 min/k, max pace: 4.30 min/k, VO2 Max: 24 ml/kg/min

The day felt so much better when I got the weight result. Training did not go as planned but I did almost everything that I had planned except one gym time, was suppose to be there two times this week

Lost 1.5K this week 🙂 Keep up the good work