Etikettarkiv: kullaberg

Preparation HIM

Monday

This week the summer opening hours at the pool started which means that on Mondays they do not open til 8 am which means that I cannot swim before work. Usually I do not swim on Mondays but Wednesday I cannot swim so I decided that I would swim somewhere during the day.

Am a tester at a medtech company and started a run where I would do readoff after 1h, 3h and 24h so after lunch and readoff at 3h I could have a break and walked down to the pool and had 45 min crawl training

Distance 45 min

Warm up
100m choice

Gliding with streamline keeping the head below the arms, kicking with feet
With buoy, gliding with streamline, the head below the arms, crawl with rotation
With buoy, start to crawl longer and longer, rotate with head, some sculling
Without buoy, start to crawl longer and longer, rotate with head

Backstroke
6 kicks, 3 crawls

Cool down:
Backstroke, Breaststroke, Crawl

So much nicer to crawl train now when I know how to breath. Still need some practice and at some point get up some speed.

After work it was time to have bike training on my Trainer

Saturday I got to the bike store and got my new saddle fitted.

Started with

Q – 75 min Threshold

Warm up:10 min

Main set:
20s All out
40s rest
20s All out
40s rest
5 min Zone 4/5
2 min rest
5 min Zone 4/5
2 min rest
5 min Zone 4/5
2 min rest
5 min Zone 4/5
2 min rest
20s All out
40s rest
20s All out
1 min rest

20s All out
40s rest
20s All out
40s rest
5 min Zone 4/5
2 min rest
5 min Zone 4/5
2 min rest
5 min Zone 4/5
2 min rest
5 min Zone 4/5
2 min rest
20s All out
40s rest
20s All out
1 min rest

Cool down: 3 min

Continued with

Q – 105 min Distance

Warm up:
7 min that was not registered (forgot to start my pulse watch)

Main set:
1 min high cadence 110
1 min high gear and low cadence
10 min Zone 2
20s all out
40s rest
20s all out
15 min Zone 2

1 min high cadence 110
1 min high gear and low cadence
10 min Zone 2
20s all out
40s rest
20s all out
15 min Zone 2

Cool down:
20 min Zone 2

Training on a LifeLine Turbo Trainer

Might have to get more padded bike shorts. It was more comfortable than before I got the saddle fitted but it still was uncomfortable at the end

Sweaty tonite

Energy: 1l water and 2 bananas.

Total distance: 72.54K, total time: 3h and 10 min

Tuesday

Started this morning with crawl training before work.

Was not sure if I would be able to do everything that was on the schedule but the goal was to spend more time swimming and not have longer rests.

There were not a crowd at the pool so I could have my own lane which is best.

Session 2

Q – Distance 55 min

Warm up + Drills

25m crawl
25m backstroke
25m sculling
25m breaststroke (had to add this because the boyu was at the other end)
25m boyu
25m crawl
25m backstroke
25m sculling
25m breaststroke (had to add this because the boyu was at the other end)
25m boyu
20s rest

Main set:

50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl

25m bouy
20s rest
25m bouy
20s rest
25m bouy
20s rest
25m bouy
20s rest
25m bouy
20s rest
25m bouy
20s rest
25m bouy
20s rest
25m bouy
20s rest
25m bouy
20s rest
25m bouy
20s rest
From the beginning it was 8x25m but I added two extra during the training

This was not part of the schedule but added these extra during training
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl
50m crawl

Cool Down:
25m backstroke
25m crawl
25m backstroke
25m crawl

Definately improving, can crawl more and more whole lanes. The goal is to crawl all those 1900m in September.

Friday

I have been wanting to head up to Kullaberg to run a trail run there but due to the right knee I have waited.

This morning it was time.

Part of me didn’t want to go, when I left it was raining but that was not stopping me and when I got up to Kullaberg it was a bit windy in the beginning but then it got warm and the sun got out.

So nice to be back.

It did not take long til I had to take off my windstopper and keep the long sleeve.

I had a little accident on the bus when 3/4 of water from one of the soft bottles got out on the ultra back pack and my tights, I had toilet paper that I could try to dry my ultra back pack with me and realized I also had a dry long sleeve that also had to be used 🙂

My goal today was to run up on more hills and that worked.

Before I got to the first tough part I got lost, did not pay close attention and missed the narrow path that was not so visible and almost had a nervous breakdown but finally I found it.

It is so good to be able to follow the route on my pulse watch, especially when it is not a route based on markers all the time but ad hoc and at a place where I am a couple of times a year. Takes 2 hours for me to get up here when I do not have a car and am running solo. Would like to get up here more often, it is a technical difficult place that I like a lot.

Passed some trekkers.

Then it was time for the second toughest part, what a view when I got to the top

Getting up on those tough parts I walk, but I get a pulse for sure.

Since it was wet I took it easy where it was rocky down hill.

At the light house it was a lot of visitors but I had time to take some pictures

After the light house it was only 4K left, I realized that they had rerouted the red/orange route due to erosion
So nice to see Mölle, the little village where I started the run in the morning.

Double Death

Finally this weekend came when it would be time for Kullamannen, Double Death.

This is the second year that we have headed up on Friday, the day before the race.

I thought it would be better to not have to take the car on Saturday, instead head up on Friday, check in to a hotel, pack up the equipment I would need on Saturday, eat a nice dinner, get to bed early, eat breakfast and get ready for the race, also nice to have someone with me, who are close to me, who would cheer me on during the day. Very appreciated.

This year they moved the start a bit further up because they would renovate the harbour in Mölle so we switched hotel to Grand Hotel, or actually not the main hotel but one of Grand Hotel’s other hotels.

The number bibs got to me before the race so I didn’t have to get it Friday or Saturday. We booked dinner at Grand Hotel, I realized when I got to the hotel that my gloves were at home and hoped that I would be able to buy new ones. They have runner stores who sell things during these race days and lucky me I could buy a pair.

When we walked down to dinner the first 100 miles runner passed the hotel where the loop was so I cheered him on.

It was raining during the evening and I hoped that it wouldn’t be this type of weather Saturday. Kept my fingers crossed.

The dinner was yummy.

Then it was time to head back to the hotel and put the running clothes on the couch, mix the sports drink and charge the batteries for the headlight and also the extra battery for the mobile phone and then sleep.

Woke up the next morning and when we walked to breakfast there were 100 miles runners who passed the loop so I cheered them on.

Nice to see that the sun was out, it looked like it would be a great race day.

Had breakfast with a very nice view. Was nice to sit there and eat breakfast and then breathe for a moment.

I asked the information where the start would be because it was not really clear but now I knew.

When I was heading out from the hotel Camilla P showed up, she would do the Black Course. I wished her luck. While I was waiting for Wille to move the car closer to the hotel, Roger L showed up. He started running the 100 miles but had to throw in the towel. Nice to catch up with him.

I got ready, put on the clothes I would wear and checked that I had everything in my ultra backpack, filled the soft flasks with soft drink and the bladder with water. Stretched.

Got a ride down to Hotel Kullaberg and then Wille would park the car somewhere and hopefully get to the start before the race started. I was walking around the start and saw some familiar runners and talked with them and then Wille showed up

It started to get closer to the start so I I left Wille and got to the start

I would start in the first group and was waiting to get into the corral and also wait for the horse and the pompous music just before the start.

I had said that I would have a great day, no knee issue and I would get out on the second lap and finish this year.

Finally the race began, I realized that I had a good pace from the beginning and was suprised at the narrow part in the beginning that it was hardly any clogging. Here people stop and walk even if it is not even hilly, you can run there and do not need to stop.

It did not take long til the gloves, hat and runner jacket went off, when u get into the nature reserve it gets hilly straight away and u get very warm.

It was a new route this year because the Nimis part had turned into a no-go zone. I tested the new route in October and liked it a lot. It would be off road instead of the Nimis part. It would be interesting how we runners would handle all the narrow parts of the race. I let the faster runners pass me, stood to the side. I am not sure I will do different next year, some runners informed me that they would pass me and then I either stepped aside or kept running since they could pass on one side.

The weather was perfect, the sun was out, it was not too warm or not too cold and not too gooey. Some colleagues from work passed me and said hi and we cheered each other on.

I realized that I still was doing good. I wanted to run the first lap around 3 h and 30 minutes and realized somewhere during the first lap that that would be possible 🙂 So I was hopeful, stopped to walk from time to time because of some challenging hills, need to work on running up those hills next year but the knee did not give me any issues

When I was on my way to the light house, I passed a kid, kids are so spontaneous, how slow she is running, I turned around and said Yes I do. Compared to the runners around me I ran slower but it was ok, the pace was not that bad.

New this year was the rope down the stone part after the light house, that is one of the tricky places where you have a big stone but cannot just climb down, you need to move down trying to find something to grap with your hands and now you could use a rope, went so much faster. Was still hopeful but when it was 3K left the knee started to complain, bummer! Let Wille know that I had to see what would happen with the knee, I might throw in the towel. I hoped that the issue would go away but that did not happen

When I got to the beach where it was a lot of stones, my feet were not happy. Then I heard it was only 600 m left.

Interesting feeling hearing people cheering me on, also Wille who sat on that last part before the loop. and know that I wouldn’t continue. Showed the official who kept track of us runners, he wanted me to get out on the loop but I signed that I was throwing in the towel.

Even if it did not go my way, I had a great first lap, 3 h and 38 minutes. Now I have to fix my knee issue.

The goal now is to run pain free, the journey has already started with going back to the gym twice a week, Yoga once a week, massage every other week, the calves have been stiff and might be one thing that cause the knee issue or hips

I will be back next year, be able to run pain free and run through the finish line.

Results

22.03K Trail Run

#67

Some weeks ago we got the PM from Kullamannen and the route had been decided. One week later I read that Länsstyrelsen (=county government) that Nimis would be a no-go zone which meant that the race cannot be at the stone part to Nimis and up Nimis. The people who are arranging this race had a 72h email conversation and had to come up with a new route.

Today it was time to head up to Kullaberg and run this new route, I had plan to run on Kullen this Saturday but now had to run the new route of course.

Got the route from Kullamannen himself.

Took the train and bus up there, put on wool sports bra, wool long sleeve, compression tights, gloves and the jacket I will wear in November. It is colder in the morning and it can be cold in the morning when you get to Kullen. Better to be able to take off clothes if I get too warm then being cold from the beginning and not be able to something about it.

This year they are renovating the harbor where the start and finish has been so the start and finish for the race I am going to run will start at a hotel so I walked up there. Started running, the start will be tougher, it goes uphill very shortly after the start and then I got to the regular part that has not been changed.

It did not take long til I felt too warm and had to take off my jacket. I also realized that I had not attached the water bladder properly and had to stop and fix that too.

It felt good to know that I am so much better prepared. I was running up on some hills and walked on the more challenging or at least tried to run up on them and then have to stop and walk but that is fine with me.

I passed the narrow path where we had run down to get to the stone part that we won’t run down on this year and continued further down on the dirt road and then continued down on another dirt road.

Got down to the water and realized that someone else was also testing running this route, we pulled our heads together to find the path to continue on. This guy had run the same race as me last year and had also thrown in the towel. He disappeared and then I was alone again, was not sure if I was on the right path turned around and now came two other runners who also were testing the new route so we were running on the route together for a moment and then I was on my own. Nice to collaborate to find the correct way. Realized that I now had gotten to the bottom wher the stone part starts but now would get up on that part where we have heading now earlier. It will be a tough part on the race and after that it was off road. I loved it. Got a bit confused but all of a sudden saw a pattern that I could follow.

Thought that I had gotten to Håkullen but was on the top before Nimis.

Then I was back on the regular route again when I had passed Nimis on the top.

I was so happy that I did not have to walk due to a knee issue, only had to walk because I had tired legs or too breathless after running up a hill.

It was a bit windy when I got to the light house and had to take it easy to not blow away.

I was not dressed for the weather but it is not easy to know how to dress, it can be very cold in the morning and then get warmer or stay cold. So I got a bit over warm. I had told Wille that I might not swim in the ocean afterwards but then informed him that meet me at the beach because I am a bit over warm and need to cool down after the run.

Wandered a bit off but it was not too long. I stopped at the beach and probably had 1K left to the finish line. This is going to be a great race this year, am glad not to have this long stone part and love the off road part a lot. It will as tough but more off road and narrow paths. It is going to be interesting how we runners will behave, we will be many who will run and some need to pass from behind because they are faster and how we will deal with that.

Results

Weight report:

Have not been satisfied with my weight this week. Hope that next week will be better.

20.63 Trail Run

#58

Today it was time for my first run this year around Kullen (Kullaberg).

November 3rd I will run Kullamannen (Double Death, 44K) and decided earlier that it will be 3x40K runs and 2xKullaberg to get fully prepared for this race.

I could have done another thing today but I cannot be at two places at the same time and since the goal this year is to run through the finish line Kullaberg was more important.

So I took the train to Helsingborg and then the bus to Mölle. During the bus ride it rained, it was suppose to rain at 8 am but as we know weather is very unpredictable. But I hoped it would stop.

Here on Kullaberg I need to follow a route because I cannot find my way around, it is not my regular trail running area, I come up here 2-3 times before the race, the plan this year was to run in the spring as well but since I ran into pneumonia beginning of this year I needed to get in better shape before I could get up here. It is a tough lap even if it 21K instead of those 35-40K runs I do on Österlen.

When I started the run it was very windy down at the harbour but when I finally got into the woods it was more calm.

Last year it was a lot of walking up on most hills but now I could run up on most of them before the stone part.

I hadn’t run very far before the rain started, what a bummer, tried to hide under some trees but it did not help and I thought that if I have come all the way up here the rain is not going to destroy my day so start to run otherwise it will be a long day, started running again and the rain stopped, did not get so wet.

Got down to the stone part and followed the rule to stay closer to the land then more to the water, less wet stones and it was not so wet this day lucky me but there are still loose stones, they can seem to be steady but when u step on one it will move so I always walk on these stones and do not try to run, 700 m took 44 minutes and then Nimis shows up, an art work by a Swedish artists in wood, a steep hill up which I also walk/climb up on. It had rained earlier so it was a bit wet. It feels when u get up all the way to the top and then you have another steep shorter hill to get up on til it is time to run and walk til u get to Håkullen. I walk where there are more rocks, wet rocks are dangerous, I hurt myself last year when I stepped on a wet stone and fell, nothing broken but hurt my hand when I tried to dampen the fall.

Decided not follow the route 100% from the bottom to the beginning of Håkullen. I finally made it. Then the worst part is over.

This time I did not get lost, when I get closer to the light house and I get down a hill there is a gate to the left that I have missed in the past and has turned to the right but have realized that it was wrong.

Today I also tested these notorious Altra Timp. Saw these in a running paper, the grip looked good but when I read the reviews it was more cons then pros. If u haven’t listened to ”the ginger runner” on Youtube here is a video Review Timp The Ginger Runner but the ginger runner said that there are people who love the Timp so it would be interesting.

I can say this, the trail shoe was nothing wrong with except that it turned out it was too small for my feet even if I had ordered a bigger size so it was not nice after a while to run down the hills, that was the only negative thing I could say about this shoe. So the chance is high that I will order a new pair and sell the old pair.

The first 10K took 2.30h but then I also have the two toughest parts. Hoped that it would take less then 5h to get back. At the light house it was windy and I took it easy down the light house.

This day Kullaberg seemed to be occupied with Danes, I love Denmark but the people in front of me during my last 4 K’s did not know the rule about moving to the sides when runners or trekkers comes behind them and want to pass so I had to make a move when I had the chance so I could continue in my pace the rest of the way.

So finally I was on the beach and had 800 m left til Mölle harbour, had to run where the finish line normally is, this year it will be moved because they are renovating the harbour when the race is.

So what can I say about this first run compared to last year, 30 minutes faster, ran up on more hills, felt good. Last year one lap took 4.30h, it was very gooey and I had not prepared enough, was suppose to run some 40K runs but did not happen, was twice up on Kullen but that is not enough, ran into a knee problem closer to the light house and walking did not help so I threw in the towel.

So I hope for a fast first lap around 3.30 and then 5h on the second lap, then I will not make it before the max time of 8h but the goal for me is to run through the finish line and if I won’t be on the list, it is OK.

After the run it was time for the mandatory swim in the ocean, cold but refreshing.

Then Wille and I shared a shrimp sandwich for lunch after the swim

Double Death

#18 – 50 Runs in 100 Days – Autumn Edition

Friday Nov 3rd I and Wille drove to Mölle. I was hoping we would get up there in the afternoon but came up early evening.

Checked in to the hotel and found the room eventually, it was not marked well but the room was nice. I could see the harbour outside the front window.

We got to Hotell Kullaberg where we ate dinner and Ola Ö showed up and would also run Kullamannen on Saturday, he would run Dödens Zon. Naturally we had some running talk.

After dinner we went back to the hotel room and I got brought out all my running gear I would wear Saturday, mixed the sports drink and put it in the refrigerator.

Friday at 11.00 the 100 miles race started at at round 21.00 (9 pm) the first runner got down to the harbour so I cheered him on.

Was quite tired so went to bed early.

Next morning I got up at 7 am. I thought that the winner of the 100 miles was on his way down to the finish line so I got out at 7.30, instead I saw another poor sould, a runner who had been running 100K, totally exhausted, didn’t feel well, was on his way to fall apart so I and another girl led him to the harbour where two other people took care of him.

Wille parked the car and I got down to the finish line where Ola already was, we waited for the winner to run through the finish lined, did the 100 miles in 21 hours, what a fighter, his first 100 miles.

Then Wille and I had breakfast at 8.00.

After that it was time to head back to the hotel room and get ready for the race, packed the ultra back pack and put on the running clothes, decided to just have the merino wool long sleeve and windstopper and not the fleece.

The seeded runners started the Double Death race at 11.30 and I planned to start the race 11.35, we started every 5 min til 11.45. I could start the race 11.35.

They had changed the beginning of the route slightly, we ran down to the beginning of the beach where we turned right, I think we did that also year 2015.

Got out to the woods and after a while I had to take off the windstopper.

Just before the race I had a chance to talk to Roger L who had thrown in the towel on the 100 miles due to a knee issue, he informed me that it was very gooey and wet.

The first part of the the first lap I was doing just fine, walked up some steeper hills but also ran up some that I had walked up during training, see what a race can do to you.

This year we did not run down to the left on a dirt road to get to the stone part, instead we ran a bit longer til we got to a parking lot where we turned to the left and then we got down to the stone part, was keeping myself as far left as I could so I could avoid the most wet part of the stone part. It was not so bad, there were wet stones but I thought it would be much more wet than it was.

The boat was still there, I wonder how that boat driver had been driving when I was there in October, quite a crash.

Nimis was awful, very gooey, I was breathless and had tired legs when I got to the top. Came another steep short gooey hill where I walked but then I could run again til I got to Håkullen, that was the steepest of all the races I have down.

When I got to the top I could also start running again but felt my right calf getting tired, I started drinking more sports drink to get away the tiredness but then I felt pain in the back of my right knee, hoped that it would go away but it didn’t.

When I got to the light house and stopped to have some sports drink I felt how frayed I was, first time I felt that way during all training and races at Kullaberg, it is only 4k left to the harbour but oh boy they did not feel light at all. More walking, the knee pain stayed there and I decided to throw in the towel when I got down to Mölle again, I had forwarned Wille that I might do that if the knee pain did not disappear.

I knew that the knee would last another lap and why head out there, get more pain and have a really tough time getting back to Mölle.

I got a medal since I had run one lap which was the Dödens Zon.

I have never been running such a gooey and wet race before, it was just too tough for my body this year, I would have needed some longer runs but got my Fall cold just before I was going to run on Kullen the second time and run a 40K run, then when I ran my first 40K prior to this race it did not go well, decided to cut the distance, ended up with a 30K race instead.

Not been my year this year but I am getting back as a ultra runner, have been doing a lot of hilly running and hilly intervals.

Already has signed up for the Double Death next year.

Now it is time to focus on the last ultra race this year and next year I am going to get back to 100% ultra runner and finish those 2 laps on Kullaberg.

Distance: 20.93K, time: 4.20.35.1h, average heart rate: 143, average pace: 12.26 min/k, max pace: 5.45 min/k, cadence: 132, VO2 Max: 29 ml/kg/min

21.21K Trail Run

#42 – 50 runs in 100 days – Summer edition

After two trail runs from Christinehof to Haväng it was time for a run on Kullaberg for the first time after the race last year in November.

This year I have decided to run the ”Double Death”, two laps, have run the ”Death Zone” which has been one lap. This year two laps will be an ultra, it will be at least 44K.

The original plan was to take the train from where I live 7.58 am to Helsingborg and then bus to Mölle, I would gotten up to Mölle 9.58 am, long ride but yesterday Fredrik from CKR informed on FB that he would drive and asked if anyone else wanted to join and we would leave the same time as the train but would get up earlier. So I was interested. Amanda also wanted to join us with her dog Irma. We three ran up there in October last year. Then Fredrik would leave later so then Amanda, Irma and I left 7.45 am this morning from my home.

Nice with company and I talked with Amanda about our run, last year Irma, the dog, was with us and when we came to Håkull she just froze, I am not moving one more mm, Håkull is no game for humans, loose soil, steep, you are basically crawling up trying to hold on to something.

It was suppose to rain after lunch but the first thing that happened when we stepped out of the car and got ready, I asked Amanda if we should try to find a place to get under and wait out the rain but then it stopped after a short time.

There are some hills that I have to mentally decide to run up, they are not short but today I walked up on some hills that I should be able to run up later, will be more hilly training this Fall.

Good that I can follow the route because the race follows the orange marker but then turn down in the woods and when I am training it is easy to run down to soon so it is better to stop sometimes to get down at the correct place, when the race is, it is wellmarked.

After a while you come down to the coast and have a very rocky part, it is just stone stone and loose stone and today it was very slippery, Irma, the dog was struggling.

When we got to Nimis we got confused, it must have had something, Nimis was burnt but it also seemed that the environment has changed, got too far to the left where Irma had a tough time but we find the right way later.

When I was going to run down to Håkull, Amanda and Irma would take another route since Irma would refuse to move up and I understand her fully. We said goodbye.

I continuned down to Håkull and had my worst fall ever, slipped on a stone, fell on my butt, hit my left elbow and right hand, swore but got up and was a bit crippled.

Håkull was tough today, wet, slippery and I could not use my right hand and had to depend on my left, you need to move up and try to grip something with your hands to not fall down and when it is slippery it is tougher. I finally made it up the first part and then you have to find a narrow path moving up the second part where the best thing is to walk up a bit and check if I am follow the path and adjust. Was on the right track but still got into the juniper part, got a bit off track but find where I would continue.

The worst part of this race is the rocky part which can be very slippery in November, up after Nimis and around Håkull, that can change every year but is very steep.

Got off track a couple of times.

When I was on my way to the lighthouse I passed Fredrik and Maria and said hi.

After the lighthouse there is a steep part you have to get down, not good being crippled, needed to use my right hand but could only use my left hand so I had to take it very easy.

Then you start to see Mölle, it is 4k left after the lighthouse and not so advanced.

Started with long sleeve, it got off because I had a hard time breathing and after the lighthouse I ran in my sportsbra to get more air.

Then I finally made it, Wille drove me to the beach so I could take a swim.

After the swim we shared a shrimp sandwich before we drove home

Distance: 21.21K, time: ,4.47.38.8 h, average heart beat: 137, average pace: 13.33 min/k, max pace: 5.26 min/k, cadence: 142, VO2 Max: 26 ml/kg/min

17K Trail Run

#37 – 50 runs in 100 days – Keep Running edition

Nov 5th I will run the race Dödens Zon (The Death Zone) on Kullaberg, approximately 22K trail run that is very different from the other trail races I am participating in. So today it was time for the last trail run before the race and what would be better than running the route.

3 other Coach K Runners that I had not run with me before wanted to join me plus Irma the dog 🙂

3 of us and the dog drove in one car and then the fourth runner would drive alone.

When we got to Mölle harbour it was very windy and cold. We waited for the fourth person but he never showed up so we were 3 runners and a dog who started running. After some k’s I had to take off my windstopper and gloves, the first k’s just goes up and up.

I could follow the route but the distance did not work this time either, I just need to get to the bottom with this.

After about 9K the route turns into a tricky narrow path into the woods and down to the coast. I had asked one of the runners to import the route just in case I would loose the route which happenend on my last trail run so there we were not in an agreement how to run, so we got off track but something felt not right so I stopped and turned back, shouted on the rest but they didn’t hear me so we got separated but since Fredrik had the route I thought that they would probably run back so I found the narrow path and ran on my own down to the coast

Text messaged Fredrik and asked if they had done a detour and got back yes but that they were close. Put my windstopper back on and gloves so I didn’t get cold while I was waiting for them.

After a while I got the message that they were 200m in front of me of the route and I was wondering which way did they go 🙂

This part is just stone stone stone so no running, loose stones, I was wondering how Irma would make it but she was doing just fine.

After a while you get to Nimis and then a steep uphill. Irma was struggling a bit.

Back to running again and then down a steep path to the coast again and then up Håkullen which is tougher than Nimis. You are basically crawling up and Irma the poor the dog got scared, she didn’t have anything to hold on to and refused to go up any furhter, Amanda decided to head back and up the other part and Fredrik and I continued on our own.

We cut the route a bit to get back to time Amanda so we probably ran around 17K

Then we got back to Mölle and I had wanted to eat this famous shrimp toast

25.58K Trail run

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This morning I got a sleepin in running morning, didn’t have to get up at 5 am, could sleep til 5.30 am.

Felt that I had to get up to Kullaberg to run Dödens Zon, 21K before the race October 31st. No one wanted to join me so it was just to do it the longer way, take the train and bus, hoped that I would get back in time to take the 3 pm bus back.

The weather report had said 11oc (52F) so I brought a fleece jacket and gloves and hat.

I ran this route beginning of August for the first time and I realized that the start was different but I liked it a lot, a narrow trail in the woods.

It did not take long til the fleece jacket was put around my hips, it just got too warm and then also my gloves and hat.

So good to be able to import a route in a pulse watch and follow it but since there are no markers yet I ended up doing some loops, getting back to the same place. If I am not looking at the rout for a few seconds more I can get outside the route so I practiced getting back on the route again on some occasions.

After a while I get down to the ”beach” and run on stones till I get to Nimis. Last time I walked on the stones and had planned to try to run but it is too many loose stones but I could walk faster this time and there was also some climbing involved (climbed earlier in my life)

Got off the route when I climbed up at Nimis but knew where I would get so it worked out at the end.

Last time my group came too far to the left at one part and ended up at a very steep downhill part where you could not run at all and I wanted to find that trail that the first group found. I know now why we got to far to the left. It feels so natural to run over a ”spong” but the trail is just before the spong but you can not see it from the beginning, it was a very steep down hill trail that you could run down for the most part but at the end it got too stoney

After I had climbed up a hill we have to get up on another hill where we had problems finding a trail and I honestly thought I would do so much better this time but NO, I had a breakdown here but calmed myself down so I systematically could get back on the route. So good to get away from that hill.

Now my legs were really tired so I combined Tailwind Raspberry and Red bull, am not a Red bull drinker normally but had started to drink that on tough trail runs. When I get tired I have cravings for sweet flavor

The sun got out and it started to get really warm, it would have been nice to have a t-shirt but rolled up my sleeves on my long sleeve.

Fell flat faced on my nose a couple of times and some swearing, have realized that when I run alone and get tired and bump into things that I swear and get grumpy, do not happen in a group 🙂

On this run I got to know Kullen a bit more because I was not running totally on the route.

When I was on my way to Kullens light house two guys showed up running so I thought it look like they are preparing for Kullamannen as well. One guy was fast and the other one got behind and after a while I passed him. We met up at the light house and asked him if he and his friend would run Kullamannen or Dödens Zon, they are going to run Dödens Zon. Unfortunately he had knee problems.

Realized that we are not going to run up to the light house on the race so I experienced a new part which I liked

Passed these cows and hoped that they wouldn’t attack me 🙂

Now it was not so long away from Mölle

When I got back to Mölle I was talking to myself 🙂 Saw myself getting closer to the finish line and when finished I almost kissed the ground 🙂

I had to wait for the 4 pm bus so I got to Hotell Kullaberg and sat on their outdoor seating and had a cold cola. Oh boy was I jealous of some people who had a huge shrimp sandwich and a cold beer.

Then it was time to get to the bus and get back home.

I ended up having a great day at Kullaberg, I really like this route, it has it’s trix

Distance: 15.89 miles (25.58K), time: 5.16.30H, average pace: 12.22 min/k, max pace: 5.33 min/k, cadence: 154, VO2 Max: 29 ml/kg/min

Gabby's Challenges

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Etikettarkiv: kullaberg

Preparation HIM

Double Death

22.03K Trail Run

20.63 Trail Run

Double Death

21.21K Trail Run

17K Trail Run

25.58K Trail run