strongupwind | Gabby's Challenges

It was time to increase the distance today, I had decided that it is time to test running 8K and see how that goes.

Today it is Walpurgis Night in Sweden and the customer where I have my assignment is off so I decided to sit home and read through documents and not work the whole day.

In the morning I ran an errand and noticed it was windy, I was hoping it would calm down by the time it was time for me to run.

The temperature was 15oC (59F) and it seemed colder because of the wind so I put gloves on in the beginning

Tough tough today, my legs wanted to run faster but I am still convinced that slowing down the pace will get my lungs much less stressed. I found a pace around 7.15 min/k but noticed that my legs increased the pace but I feel it in my lungs that they are not ready for 6.35 min/k which normally is not fast.

I knew that I had run a 8K run out on the bog and checked in my blog when I did it and found the route in Movescount and thought that I had figured out the route 🙂

Got out on the bog and oh boy was it windy, the wind almost took me a couple of times, fell almost to the side but fought to keep me up.

Part of the run it was a very strong upwind, it felt like running in very thick suryp, almost stood still. This was definately the windiest so far.

So I past 5K and still was running, every meter would be a bonus after 5K. When I started to calculate how long this distance would be I was not sure it would end up being 8K but thought 7.5K and I would be fine with that but when I almost was back I had ran 7.13K and decided that I would continue since I could.