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20.47K City Trail Run

#48

I am back, did not blog over vacation, ran 5x5K runs. Enjoyed starting early in the morning when it has been cool.

Got back yesterday, before I went on vacation we had tropical heat in Sweden and after nearly 2 weeks in France the temperature has dropped but it is still warm.

Decided to head out on a long run after breakfast but the temperature as 24oC (75.2F). Brought 1 liter of water in my ultra back pack.

My legs were fast from the beginning but me running in the heat is not best friends so a slower pace would be much better but forcing my legs to run slower is just going to give bias (=snedbelastning) so I decided to let my legs decide the pace and when I would get this uncomfortable breathlessness I would stop and walk to catch my breath.

Even if is was warm when I started it was cloudy and there was a breeze so it  was not as tough as two weeks ago when I only lasted for approximately 1K.

The first hill I just ran up but then around 3.5K I had to stop and walk for a moment and then I ran again til I got to this part where I have walked in the past, it is a road in the neighborhood which goes up for a while.

Then I ran longer before I had to stop again.

Thought that I would be fine when I got to the first hill at Klosterängens höjder but I could not run all the way up that hill. When I stood at the top to catch my breath I saw on top of the second hill were school kids, they were not going to destroy my run but decided to run back on the first hill and run up again and hope that they would be gone. Now I managed to run all the way up 🙂 Felt good.

They had started walking down the second hill so I got ready and ran up the second hill and then ran down on the other side, ran back up again and ran all the way 🙂

Then up the fourth hill.

Then it was time to run to St Hans hills and run one lap there.

After approximately half the run I ran into a new knee issue, did not feel the same as before so I had to deal with that, what helped was to walk, if I started to run too soon I felt it in my knee so then I just had to walk some more.

It felt good to run up all the way on all hills except one, what I did this time was not to stop and catch my breath, kept walking instead and then when I was ready I started running again.

Then the worst was over and I had approximately 5K left. Wanted to finish under 3h.

I could wet my whole hair at the grave yard, had a place where you can fill water pitchers with water. Oh boy did that feel good.

I have to say that the heat was not the biggest issue, earlier it was blue sky and sun and now it was cloudy, but the fast legs in the heat made me have to walk from time to get rid of the uncomfortable breathlessness and then then knee issue from time to time.

Was glad to head out and get this long run, hope that it will cool down soon so I just can run.

Results

Weight report

Been on vacation, expected weight gain since I would not run as much as I normally do, hoped it would be around 2 KG and this felt good

+2.3 KG

 

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

 

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

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.

 

12.48K Short Run

#17

I ran into a knee issue Saturday during my trail run and decided to rest one day more.

Could have been running yesterday since there was no choir rehearsal but got to the gym instead. I was hoping that this extra day would get my knee in order.

When I biked home I saw on my watch that it was 28oC (82.4F). So it would be warm so mandatory water belt and then running skirt, linnen.

Since me, running and heat are not best friends it was very likely that I would be forced to walk due to the heat. Decided I would try to run as long as I could before I had to walk.

Had a good pace from the beginning and started to feel the heat at around 1K, decided that I would try to run 3K, it was a bit tough between 2 and 2.8K. I almost gave up at 2.5K but my stronger me pushed it. It felt almost like the first time, heavy  pressure on my chest, but the difference was that it was the pneumonia lungs talking, it was just because of the heat.

Decided to walk 500 m.

The water saved me tonite, I wet my hair as much as I could and it cooled me down 🙂

Next time I would try to run at least up to 6K, knew that at 5K I would have two up running parts but survived and then I had to push myself 1K more. I hadn’t run into any knee issue.

One guy passed me and looked unbelievable fresh, had a fast pace but it was good to see some other runners suffered as well.

The running between 6.5 and 9.5K was brutal, had to really push it the last 500 meters. Still no knee issue 🙂

Walked 500 meters.

Started running, felt like I had a fast pace but what I didn’t like was that I saw two horses in front of me but going in the same direction. One turned left but then there was one left. I would have some space between, lucky me the girl on the horse noticed me coming from behind and got the horse more to the left and I tried to be as far to the right as I could.

I was suppose to run all the way home after 10K but at 11.28K I had to stop, walk a short distance and then I ran the rest of the way.

No knee issue today and the water was my survival tonite, had to wet my hair and face multiple times during the run and also drink the water.

12.5K Long Run

#28 – 50 runs in 100 days – Summer edition

Finally an afternoon and evening without rain and now I could head out on my 12.5K run and I had decided that I would follow a route again with my Suunto pulse watch. Just in case it wouldn’t work I wore my apple watch where I was using the Strava application.

Saw that the temperature was 22oC (71.6F) and decided to wear my water belt with 2 water bottles and was glad I made that decision.

No back pain today and also felt I was doing good but once again the heat killed me again.

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Tried to run as far as I could before I had to walk, that is tough because I felt it in my body, hoped I could make for 5K but had to stop earlier.

I had a hard time breathing in the beginning and removed my t-shirt under my flipbelt and water belt. It helped a bit, had to take off my t-shirt and run in my sports bra, felt running in my sports bra on a city run but it was also liberating.

Wet my hair a few times.

Was basically walking up the hillier parts of this run and then walked a bit after that to catch my breath.

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Distance: 12.33K, time: 1.34.01.8, average pace: 7.37 min/k, max pace: 5.05 min/k, cadence: 154

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