Slow progress

July 18, 2009

After I was hit by a summer-flu end of last week I’m now back to normal training. What a pity that I lost so many days in this important period of the preparation for the Finnish Championships / Kalevan Kisat, where I will race at the 10.000m on July 31st. Some track workout are missing and it seems that I will need a good day and perfect conditions to go close to (or under) 31minutes. In fact I had my first track session on friday, that was 10 days after my last tough workout way too much. On friday I did 800m repeats but I could feel that I was not on the top of my game as I had to quit after 5 repetitions that all were in the area of 2:26min. Even if running 72-74 seconds per lap did not feel too difficult I was getting tired earlier as plan and decided that I don’t want to destroy the shape again and get sick again. There were still some problems with my breathing and sucking the air is not a good thing if you want to stay relaxed.

Anyway, the mileage is now back to normal again and this week I can log about 160-170km after two weeks of really low mileage. Today the legs were also better than the days before – considering the fast session yesterday that’s a good sign and I’m a bit more confident again.

story of the picture: After the race in Strömstad I had the honour of driving the caravan of Australian mate Dan Hornery. After a nice and long night I was the only one who was sober so I made my debut in driving behind a wheel on the right side of the car (yes right, the mate had a british car). It took some time to get used to shift gears with the left hand but it worked