Running hills

October 22, 2009

Today a nice hill session with with two of the big guns in town – Juha Puttonen (5000m PB-14:30min) and Miika Takala (5000m PB-14:28min and a marathon PB that is 5 sec faster than mine – but only until the next marathon

2x5x70seconds + 10x100m strides  was on the program. I couldn’t remember when I did this kind of workout last time. Must have been in the summer, so several months ago. Nevertheless, it went surprisingly well and I was surprised I could match the speed of my close mate Miika. Great to feel all the lactate in the legs after some 6 or 7 reps. You just start a new rep and after 15seconds your legs feel like burning. I missed this feeling somehow. Since my mileage is quite low at this time of the year the speed is much better and running fast feels pretty easy.

Let’s see if my legs fall off when I go for a run tomorrow

I also added another competition to my race plan. Next weekend I will compete in the Finnish qualification race for the Nordic Cross-Country Championships. I already competed in this race in 2007, so I have a time (and also place) to improve. 2007 I took 9th place in 31:46min on the 9km course.