sportsbh | Gabby's Challenges

#24 – 16.28K trail run
#25 – 4.33K, transport to the train station

Decided last week that I would do a rerun of last week’s trail run, cannot increase the distance to soon in a short time, needs to go slowly to get back in shape.

The goal for today was to run up some of the hills that I walked up last week.

Temperature: 20oC (68F) so shorts, t-shirt and compression socks.

Decided also to sleep in and not have to sit and wait 1h in Höör for the first bus out to Frostavallen.

Was not sure if I had made the right decision with shorts and t-shirt but would found out soon on the trail run if it was right or not.

So I started my trail run which today also would be green/old black

I ran up the first hill that I have walked on last week and it felt great just to do it but I also felt heavy breathing and I just had to take that t-shirt off and run in the sports bra even if I am not a runner who runs in a sports bra and oh man how it felt after the t-shirt was off.

Even if the running felt much better than last week the heat was killing me today so I had to walk more.

I did not meet any other runners, I believe that a lot are running Göteborgsvarvet, a half marathon in Gothenburg but it was nice running and hear the birds singing.

Drank a lot more water but decided not to wet my hair since I believed that I probably would be in a need of drinking more

3 bikers came in the other direction on the old black and we said hi and also some Danish trekkers and a couple who were impressed that I was out running but I told them it was warm.

The last dirt road felt very long and I was not able to run up on any of those hillier parts.

This is a special place, here is the third fuel station at the ultra race I run in December. At this point you have 17K left and a lot of the Hektor family is there cheering you on and you can drink coffee and pick up some more energy before you continue on Tjörnarparen.

Today I saw these, there was a bunch of them earlier but these guy was on his own and didn’t mind getting photographed.

And finally it was time for Djuralids hill, the worst hill of them all, I have run up this one once when I had made up my mind in advance but today I walked up that hill

After Djuralids hill you also have this one to conquer

More bikers and the three bikers I met earlier showed up again and we said hallo again, they recognized me 🙂

Even if I ran St Hans Extreme Thursday I was not as tired in my legs as last week and when I got back to Frostavallen I did not have any tired calves either and no hip problem so I could run a longer part before I had to stop and walk to catch my breath.

Think that the gym has started to show progress now when I am back with hip stability and hip strengthening.

Nice to get back to Frostavallen, 5 minutes slower than last week but also warmer so I was satisfied

After the trail run it was time to head back to Höörs train station so the last run was combined run and walk, got in 5 min before the train would leave so I ran a bit longer before I stopped and then had time to buy a ticket.

These came in handy today and I mean the eyeglass. I had problems last week when I was going to buy a ticket, had to ask a 20 year old girl for help and then I realized when I got home that I had these, bought them on Österlen art round (Österlens konstrunda), I actually bought the sheath but had to buy the eyeglass too but did not know what to do with them. They were in my ultra back pack so I could see the different stations when I bought a ticket 🙂