steve common <
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> Sun 0:50 20' up, 8km county cross country championship f*ed both ankles and one knee. great :-(
Hope you got to stand on (or as if on) the podium for "équipes"?
(Sun 2.5 hrs club LSD run)
Mon 1.0 hrs pole-running on a up-and-down 1.5K loop
Tue 1.5 hrs running on unlit forest paths in a perfect moonlit night: the temperature had sunk below
freezing and the frost made the landscape magically luminous. A long bath in a really good sauna,
complete with a quick swim in the (not yet frozen) lake and home- made (rye-malt, low-alcohol) beer
afterwards. You people don´t know what you miss in this life
Wed rest
Thu 1.5 hrs pole-running on afore-mentioned loop
Fri 1.5 hrs pole-jogging
Sat 10K 6K jog/run WU, 10K race and 6K jog/walk CD. I chose to treat this event (the second race in
a local winter series) as a training run(1): 7-8K at a HRM-dictated (93-94%HRmax) pace and the rest
at whatever I could get out of myself. Marvellous sunny - the sun low on the horizon at 1PM, already
beginning to set at 2PM - winter day, despite the complete lack of snow: -2C/28F, the wind still.
Plan worked "fine": after a very slow start I was reeling in harder-breathing runners, but my "kick"
didn´t really take me anywhere (except into the 96-97% range), and when a youngster sped past me on
the last K, I could only exclaim a quiet "Oh, the impatience of youth!". For the last three Ks I
could hear the laboured breathing of a female runner right behind me: just like some women´s voices
have a certain timbre which makes them erotically alluring no matter how they speak orwhat they say,
the way she sounded would´ve made any adult movie producer see dollar signs...
(1) BTW how *should* a 10K race be run for optimal out-of-racing-season training
purposes? Even pace at <90%HRmax (~at a MP-10s/km pace)?
Sun 1.5 hrs pole-jogging on two inches of fresh snow.
(Mon rest raining, the snow already turned into wet slush.
Anders
