Peter’s Blog

Yes we should have been running yesterday as we normally run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays but we were just too tired after walking around in The Open Air Museum for 5 hours. That means that we will be running Wednesday, Friday and Sunday this week instead.

Tine and I went out on her 2nd attempt on finishing her running program by running 30 minutes. This time she did it - and in great style as the last minute she did a sprint to the end up a hill !
I’m proud that she made it and I hope she will get lots of joy out of running as I do.

After that I went out for my 7280 meters, finally the 10Km dosn’t seem to be far away. In spite of windy weather it went rather easy but that’s not a big surprise when I do a pace that holds my pulse under the max of 150. The average speed was 5:05 minutes/Km and as always I was hoping to be closer to or under the 5:00 so I think it was a bit slow.

Tine and I went out for her 25 minutes without any problems. I’m sure she will finish her running program with 30 minutes this year !

After that I went out on my 6660 meters and did it with an average speed of 5:01 minutes/Km.

Today Tine was feeling better and wanted to run again. She decided that the best idea was to jump into her running program with a week left to get ready to attack the 30 minutes again a week later. I totally agreed as I can’t see any point in forcing oneself to something that might be too much, especially when you do have the opportunity to take it slow and easy - and by that actually enjoy it !
So we did her 23 minutes and I think she was happy with the result.

After that I went for my 5540 meters and as it’s Thursday it’s the day I do speed instead of distance. Today I was allowed a pulse of 160 so the conditions was the same as 2 weeks ago so I was hoping for a speed similar to that but I have to say I was in for a surprise !
While running I could somehow feel that I was going quite faster than I thought I would but I was not sure. When I got home and checked the speed it said an average of 4:39 minutes/Km !

Tine didn’t feel so good, so she skipped her running today and I think it was a wise decision as you will not gain anything by forcing yourself if your body says no.

Instead I took 6 minutes of warm up in the same pace as Tine and I usual run in before I went on to my 6660 meters as my recovery week are over and now I can add again. The weather was warm today (24.7dg C.) but not as warm as last Sunday and it was a bit windy too so I had no problem doing the distance this time.

Actually I was feeling so good that I thought I would finally break the 5:00 minute/Km again but when I got home and looked at the average speed it was 5.01 minute/Km - well it couldn’t be more close and as it was the fastest I have runned for long with the pulse limit at 150 I have to be pleased.

Today it was Tines last day on her running program. The plan was to run 30 minutes but as always plans might be one thing and what happens in the real world is another. After 20 minutes she was more or less used up and after 28 minutes she had to stop.

She is rather disappointed but if you ask me, I think she did very good ! 28 minutes are the longest she has ever run and it’s 2 minutes more than her previous record. And taken the circumstances I even think it was very good as it was a very hot day 26.3dg C. (79.3dg F.) and way higher in the sun !

After running with Tine I went for my 6040 meters and after about 3Km I too started to get into trouble because of the heat especially at keeping the pulse under my 150. Well I finished all 6040 meters with an average speed of 5:03 minute/Km and was happy that I didn’t have to run any further.

Maybe 26.3dg C. dosn’t sound of much but if you’re not used to run in such warm weather then you will run into trouble as both Tine and I did.