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Training Updates

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I sure have been wearing my t6c enough for it to show.
Just not necessarily in recent training success.

I don’t really have an event I’m training up to, but I certainly will be doing something again. And anyways, a constant (early) time for getting up in the mornings, regular training, and consistent work - studies and writing - are three aims of mine. Or rather, they aren’t goals but ways to an end.

So, back to putting some more notes online, seeing if it gets me to actually achieve more constancy in these things.

For one, something on the training so far, since I came to China:

  • Week 37: 3 sessions, 2:12 hours, 19.87 km
  • Week 38: 2 sessions, 1:06 hrs, 10.77 km
  • Week 39: 3 sessions, 02:05 hrs, 21.17 km
  • Week 40: 3 sessions, 02:12 hrs, 22.19 km

-> September: 05 hrs. 23:33,5 and 51.81 km
Not much, just getting used to the situation, with quite a heat and humidity.

  • Week 41: 2 sessions, 02:04 hrs, 21.16 km
  • Week 42: 1 session, 00:21 hrs, 3.45 km
    (Ahem! At least I have the excuse that it was when a cold got me. And I ran around Changsha for miles and hours, both this week and the week before…)
  • Week 43: 3 sessions, 02:24, 22.92 km (actually, more like 27. The FootPOD gave out on me)

-> October, so far: 07 hrs. 02:00,1 and 69.72 (recorded) km

At some point soon, I’ll have to find some more, longer routes… I’m circling campus once or twice already, and it’s not long enough. And I need to get back up to former levels…

In that vein, I’ve taken up night running again. I don’t have enough time in the mornings during the first half of the week, and after running in Riga, I’m rather used to it. China, though, requires the flashlight much more often: When and where light is not needed, China does not have illumination. No place for wasting electricity. I don’t really mind, I do have my trusty Surefire, and I had it with me during the Baltic winter as well. Still, it is quite interesting…

Recovery Week

Sunday, July 13th, 2008
The (lower) legs were pretty sore from the mountain marathon / Bergmarathon on July 5, and that for quite a while. Still, time to continue training - and blogging it.
  • July 8: on the bike - 00:53:34 - 13.82 km - avg. HR 106 - TE 1.5
    Cross-training like that was very nice, I’m doing something this way, getting a low training effect for once, and still not abusing my legs.
  • 7/11: running again - 00:50:30 - 8.44 km - avg. HR 138 - TE 2.5
    Running early in the morning to stay out of the heat (and to get in training before almost everything else), and it seems to have been very nice and easy. The legs are still a little heavy, but almost back to normal; I do wonder, though, if the heart rate is low because I’m doing better or because of some effect of overtraining…
  • 7/12: biking - 01:09:05 - 20.78 km - avg. HR 109 - TE 1.4another nice and easy ride, not least, to keep doing something
    7/13: and back to running yet again - 01:22:57 - 13.89 km - avg. HR 148 - TE 3.3Looking, and feeling, good.

I am starting to think I really ought to find another event to train towards, and soon ;-)

Bergmarathon 2008 Report

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

By the organizers’ description, Europe’s most beautiful mountain run,
according to many participants, the hardest event…

70 km, 4300 meters of ascent are quite something, after all.
My GPS-POD actually recorded a distance of 85 km, but it jumped around like crazy…also, according to my Suunto t6c’s analysis, I burnt nearly 10500 kcal.
A normal day’s worth is 2000-3000 kilocalories.

It took me 14 hours and 10 minutes.
And yes, indeed, it is beautiful. And hard. - Just check out the altitude profile:

… read on and see more here.

Bergmarathon - 1 Week To Go

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

That time’s upon us… just one more week.

Like before Stockholm Marathon, I’m vacillating between feeling quite confident, and thinking it’s quite too much I want to do there.

At least, I much prefer being nervous about this to being nervous about the decision on the Monbukagakusho application (which, as I forgot to mention yesterday, we will learn about already next week). After all, it’s my own physical and psychological capabilities which are decisive here, not what a committee thinks of what I wrote and said and seemed like.

Still, when I remember that one or another of my posts announcing that I’ll participate in that event comes among the first results when looking for info on the Bergmarathon… OMG… Well, as with so many things, I’ll just have to see how it goes. And first of all, to hope that the weather will be all right.