Etikettarkiv: snowing

16.28K Trail Run

Part of me wanted to turn around and go back to my warm home when I started my walk down to the train station. It was cold and it was snowing a bit but my stronger me decided to get going.

Warmed me up inside before it was time to get on the second train. Hav ing a 20 minutes train ride is perfect for stretching. Important to have something to hold on to when the train is stopping at the different stations. Got to Höörs train station 10 minutes before the bus would leave and today no such luck that the bus was already there so I had to sit outside and try to warm up my legs. Today it was a big bus but only me on it.

when I got off the bus it was cold, snowing and I felt that it was ”gliding” snow and decided to cut the distance, was suppose to increase the distance today but decided to run the same route as last weekend but run to the right around the lake of Dagtorp to see how long it would be to take the red after I got back to Frostavallen.

Was cold in the beginning but it did not take long til I got warm. Goal for today was to continue running up all the way on all hills and also continue running after I had reached the top even if I was breathless. This is a mindset that I have to work on. Of course I will get breathless when I have run up on a hill but that doesn’t mean that I have to start walking. Worked.

A bit heavier snow today, more wet than last weekend. Not a lot of activity when it came to others.

When I was going to take the first picture and brought out my mobile phone it was ”black”, battery basically dead, was 100% charged when I left, this happens when it is colder outside. So I had to stop and charge the battery and voilá it got up to 87% immediately.

Nice feeling when I realize at certain parts that no one today have been treeking or running there before me. Nice to be the first one to put my  footprints on the snow.

Usually around the lake of Dagtorp I hear the hunters on a distance at this time of the year, today I heard dogs barking. Ran all the way on the first dirt road on the blue marker, one car passed me, probably a ”hunter” car.

Decided to run on the tough technical area with all the stones on the first blue marker area and did not fall or stumble this time.

Interesting that I always get a special feeling when I get to the part where the third fuel station is on Tjörnarparen –  the ultra race that I usually run in December. Today when I got to that hill part on the second dirt road I decided to run to the second M sign and I did it 🙂

Finally I got to Djuralid’s hill, today I had back gliding, nothing to hold on and back gliding but I got to the top, ran up on the short steep hill after this hill.

Passed a dog walker who asked me if I ran on the path and I said yes. She said it had been hunters there earlier but thought I would be fine, I have not seen any hunters there before and did not see any now.

Got on the red marker and did not miss to turn to the right before the jetty. So running on the red marker instead of continuing on the orange and then green did not increase the distance.

Results

Weight report

18.68K Long Run

#19 – 50 runs in 100 days – Winter edition

This morning it was time for a longer run. Didn’t feel that it would be as icy but since I would run on the country side it is hard to know.

Temperature: 2oC (35.6F)

Just when I started my run it started to snow heavily and I was thinking if this is how it is going to be the whole day I might get soaked so I would see how long the distance would be at the end. Decided to run the route and see if the weather would change and lucky me it stopped snowing after a few K.

Ok pace, I am heavier now so at the moment I am not a 6 min runner, more 6.30 min runner but it is going to change. I am determined to get these extra pounds off.

Said hello to every runner I passed and even two bikers.

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After 10K I ran into a knee issue that disappeared but then around 11.5K I started to run into a right calf issue which moved to the knee so I decided to walk 500m. Then I had to make a stop because two dogs came running barking and I was not sure what they would do. Safest was to put me on squatting to calm them down. One of them was a bit reserved but finally got close to me but the other dog barked and growled but the tail was waving. The owner heard the barking and came out, I tried to start running and the barking dog came towards me so I put me down squatting again, finally they ran back.

This calf issue came back and I had to walk two more times before I came back home.

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It is good to get out running on heavy legs but if I feel it is almost pain, better to walk 500 m and then run again.

Nice to get out for a run and a longer one.

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Distance: 18.68K, time: 2.09.57 h, average heart rate: 142, average pace: 6.57 min/k, max pace: 5.19 min/k, cadence: 170, VO2 Max: 26 ml/kg/min