månadsarkiv: augusti 2010

Swedish

Besviken

Jag är besviken på Midnattsloppet som i år har bestämt sig för att sätta ribban ganska högt och utesluta många motionärer. Det gör mig ledsen och jag lär dra tillbaka min anmälan till loppet eftersom kraven på tempo är för höga för att jag skall ha en chans att fullfölja loppet. Man säger själva att man har tagit till ordentligt på löptiden men det stämmer inte alls tycker jag.

På deras hemsida ser man att den långsammaste startgruppen (grupp 7 som jag själv skulle deltagit i) startar 22:40 och man måste ha passerat Fjällgatan innan 23:30 vilket är 7 km från start. Det ger att man måste ha ett snittempo på 7,14 min/km eller översatt behöver man klara milen på 71 minuter eller bättre.

Som första lopp hade jag en del fantasier om att klara det på 75 minuter, nu är jag inte riktigt där ännu men en realistisk uppskattning vore att jag kunde gå i mål på runt 85 minuter om man räknar med att man blir lite extra peppad. Det betyder dock att jag måste passera repet på Fjällgatan ganska precis en timme efter start, dvs tio minuter efter sista tid man måste ha utan att bli tvungen att bryta.

Jag kommer inte på en vecka kunna höja min löphastighet med 20% så jag får lägga ner det här. Det är jävligt trist men eftersom arrangörerna har lagt upp det på det här sättet finns det inga möjligheter att fullfölja och att springa 7 km för att bryta sedan känns bara otroligt tråkigt och då ger jag mig hellre ut i skogen och springer för mig själv i stället.

Ja det var ju bortkastade 340 kronor.

English

8 km gravel roads on the Järva fields

Last night I took the car to a nearby parking just outside Järvafältet. I hade in mind to run with my GPS logger and as it has a map to be able to decide on the fly to go a longer or shorter route, take a short-cut or extend the running depending on the feeling.

Turns out the batteries however was depleted in it, although it looked like they where half-charged when I checked them at home so I left it in the car and started on a path I sometimes go by bike and I know fairly well.

Bodaäng-Kalkviken-8km

It was a magical night, a bit of fog over the open fields, the road was a little soft after the rain but that was great for the legs after doing a tougher round on asphalt the other day and I ran through the wonderful farm at Rocksta where I could hear the horses in the stable and there where cows in the fields. The air was cool, around 16°C and it was just lovely being out in this wonderful weather.

During the whole run I met two people. One lady on a bike fairly close to the starting point, maybe 1.5 km in to the run and then on my way back around 5.5 km I met this guy who was lost on his bike trying to get back to Jakobsberg. I gave him a road description since I know this area pretty well by now and he thanked me.

During the whole run I stopped the clock twice, once to check my bearings when I tought I had gone the wrong way (I didn’t but I ran back and forth a few hundred meters off clock to check) and then when I gave the lost guy some directions.

The path is a little bit hilly, one bigger hill close to the beginning and then some smaller ones and longer stretches of uphill/downhill. I kept a great pace based on my heartbeat trying to never exceed 150 bpm instead work on my endurance today and it worked great I felt so good the entire time it was a shame to stop.

The sun was setting in the long slow way it does up in the north in the summer time, we have sunsets from about 19-21 with the light slowly fading away and although it was pretty dark when I got back to the car it was just lovely from start to end.

This path can easily be extended to 10 km or even 12 km just by slighly changing the route. I think I might go for the 12 km next time. I hope my friend Jenny joins me then.

 

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July month in training

This month was a record since I started with the running madness that I have actually kept up pretty well through bad and worse.

July statistics

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I have never run so much in one month as I have in July. Seriously, this is really cool. On average I have done 3,4 km per day or been out for 30 minutes every day. Not bad considering that I have had three weeks of holiday as well in this time!

And now I have 15 days to run before I am entering the first competition in my life, the Midnattsloppet midnight race through stockholm south end, a 10 km run on asphalt.

And I feel good about it!

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Training Wk 30

A nice week but a little slow on the training side because we went to our summerhouse for a bit of holiday and I did one 5k run there around the lake. They have built a new gravel road there in order to be able to run timber from the woods out of the area but this road is hardly worth the name, it was soft and difficult to run, lots of potholes and fist-sized rocks strewn about and it was also quite hilly, not surprising actually. After that we came back home to Stockholm again and I had a really nice run together with my friend Jenny.

Jenny who started running in 2006 and then had a couple of stops since she’s had two children since that time, runs at a tempo that is a bit higher than mine usually but this was really good, she could slow down and I could work on getting a little better tempo in to my run. Not to mention she’s just such a great person and nice to talk to so we had a really good run although we took a couple of wrong turns so the 6,7 km yellow track at Altorp became about 7,7 km instead, no problem there.

Tonight I am going for a run where I live so that will make it 3 runs this week.

Then I have less than two weeks before Midnattsloppet to train for it, I am not worried but I need to get a quality week of running in and then a long distance run and some rest the days before the actual race, I think that will be good.

And of course more runs with Jenny!