#38 – 50 runs in 100 days summer edition
#95 – 100 Days Of Miles Challenge

Today it was time again to get up 5 am this morning to get to Tjörnarp and run a trail run.

The day did not go as planned and now I can laugh about it. I was looking forward to a nice not to warm trail run and originally distance was 45K. During the train ride it started to rain heavily and I do not like to run in the rain except if I have been out on a really warm day and the sky opened up. I was wondering how this day would be. A big question mark. I was hoping it would be fine by the time I got to Tjörnarp and it seemed to be fine when I got out from the train.

Knew that it would be wet and gooey.

I decided I would run and not just turn back

It started just fine but then the sky opened up and I got soaked, my hair got wet, my long sleeve shirt got wet, my tights got wet and my shoes got wet   Wonderful.

No way that I was going to run 6 h soaked so if it didn’t get better I decided I would run at least 20K.

It was very green in the forest and more rain came so I decided I would run to the first fuel station and then run back.

Rain can be good because I felt that I had a good pace even if it was very wet on the paths.

I was on my way to sprain both my feet, and had some ache in my right knee but I didn’t run into any issues and I also fell flat into the ground.

Glad I had my Altra Lone Peak running shoes, they handle wet stones very well but not wet branches so on the loop I had to take it easy.

One positive thing that has happened lately is that the pace has increased at the end. I am a so much different trail person today than last year when I did my first ultra, so much positive things have happened over the summer and it is such a joy

There was no wandering around, handled the faster pace great.

Of course when I returned back to Tjörnarp the sun came out.

Lucky me I had my dry bag with me with a dry long sleeve shirt and dry socks and I also have newsprint with me. Why? because my trail shoes are very likely wet when I get back and there is no point to put my feet with dry socks into those wet running shoes.

Today on the train I got myself a laugh because the newsprint was not dry

I decided to walk home and bought a cup of coffee to get warm during my walk and what happened. It started to rain again, then I didn’t laugh.

It turned out to be a good trail run even if it got shortened. Even faster today, it is definately going in the right direction just like I have planned.

 

Distance: 13.6 miles (21.9K), time: 2.46.10 h, average pace: 7.35 min/k, max pace: 5.24 min/k, cadence: 170, VO2 Max: 26 ml/kg/min