Training Log Archive: schnitzer

Long trail route.

After a conversation last night with someone who knows the Alby reflexbanor ran over there to get to know them better, in particular the longer one to the North of the club hut. Now I know where the start and finish is and what to do in the couple of places where the reflectors are not all that well maintained.

Unfortunately I forgot to take my compass so decided against doing the extension, don't know how long that is or how easy it is to lose the trail. Save it for next time, ran home from Alby via my usual trail route to safely add on some more distance.

Fell into the stream that goes up the valley from Albysjön. Well, I say stream but lots of snow has been melting and I found myself almost waist deep. Not a big problem, it was only -2 and managed to stay warm enough at the same, steady effort.

New short-medium trail route, slushy.

100/1000 days.

So things not quite to plan over the 2nd and 3rd 4-week blocks of base training, thanks largely to a cold and an injury in the first two weeks of the 2nd. Probably almost made up for the lost hours of training however, averaging over 5 hours running per week since then. Seeing as I've rested 5 out of the last 6 days I think I can put some hours in over the next few and still have most of next week to recover from it. Then POM and after that I'm looking forward to starting some anaerobic work.

So what has the base training achieved? Fortunately I have a good comparison to hand. Two virtually identical hill sessions, over two months between them, well rested before both and probably was around the same weight...

180128 - 152 ahr, 160 mhr, 6 reps, 13:17.2 per rep, 13:12 best (4), 13:22 worst (1)
171123 - 151 ahr, 160 mhr, 5 reps, 13:57.8 per rep, 13:36 best (2), 14:21 worst (5)