Training Log Archive: Torino

Ran my first race in a long time again. La Trotteuse-Tissot in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Start at 5:15 pm w all the women's classes only. A funny feeling, but there were still too many of us as in the first loop I had to stop and wait at different bottlenecks. Had to do 3 loops, 2 k each. Each loop had 2 fairly taxing short inclines.
Was happy with my time and was not last in my age class or of all women ;-). 6 out of 7 in age class, they are wicked fast!

We still have beautiful weather, warm and no snow on the near mountains. However, this is often accompanied with fog in the lower areas which can be thick. But we can escape to the sunshine in relatively short time now.

C • Complimenti! 4

Went to the Planeyse and did 2x1k on the soft track (6:10 ; 5.59! :-)). Then ran around mostly on grassy meadows to build a bit of endurance strenght, something I have been lacking to do over the last years. Boy, my quads and hamstrings felt like jello towards the end.
Running in the fog, grrr, our almost daily companion now in December.

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Escaped the fog at home up to La Tourne with beautiful sunshine. Ran up to Mont Racine on mostly snow-free trails/roads. However, some sections did have icy spots and hard-packed snow which slowed me down a lot. But very fun run.
Where's the snow?? There was some earlier in the month and usually this area is full of cross-country ski tracks. Well, running in that marvellous area is still great. On the long ridge of Mont Racine, there was an incredible view from Mont Blanc to the Bernese Alps. However, below over the middle land area, there's a thick fog-soup where we all live in :-/(. Glad it doesn't take far to escape.