DNF

SORRY folks, I have not been too active whit this blog. Almost three weeks has gone after the Great Masochist's Day, 11.08.

It was a DNF as you might infere from the headline.

AND IT WAS MY VERY FIRST ULTRA RUN, too! Some two marathons, over 50 miles aka 85 Ks in under 10 hours :-). I'm happy with this (there is no choice anyway). The day was very hot and I got dehydrated and exhausted, these were the reasons for DNF.

I'll continue to write texts to this blog. The name of the blog should be renewed.. I'll do it later.

17 days to go...

Two weeks and a couple of days to go before the Masochist Day 11.08. 2007.

In May and in June I got used to run and cycle a little more than earlier during this year. Still the weekly doses of running were some 60-80 K ... which means a normal marathon training.

In June (9.6.) I ran a marathon in 3:24:50 and in July (6.7.) another marathon in 3:22:56. Both were night marathons, which is unusual in Finland. I'm rather happy with these marathons cause they were easy to run and if you look optimistically the times, there is a promise of a 10 hour 100 K...

Running short of running

• 23.5 -biking 18 K in the morning and 18 K in the afternoon, about 45-50 minutes per time. Biking is a new innovation to end pollution and climate heating. It is also a handy way to get to the work place. Tomorrow I've to bike all the way, some 35 kilometres, because my beautiful classic car got a severe flu (mysterious problems with battery that empty itself). Today I biked only half of the entire journey.
  
• 22.5 -implementation of biking to the training program and also to the everyday life started. First trials: half an hour (10 K) in the morning and the same in the afternoon.
• 21.5 -12 K, 59 minutes, an easy recovery run.
• 18.5 -2 h 29 minutes, some 26 K. A nice, cheerful run, part of it in the national park of Nuuksio. A long run, yes indeed!
  
• Norovirus .... good damn! The shit business lasted three days. After the disease I felt really good, just like after a fasting period...
• some short easy runs during 8. - 11.5 .

I'M NOT SURE if the headline really means anything in English ... Anyway, I'm not too proud of my program and yet, I am running at least some times a week and there's also a new lifestyle innovation, the biking hobby.

Precisely biking is not a hobby at all, but a serious way of getting from one place to another. Biking is nice, especially if your car is broke and you have got no money to fix it or to buy a new one. To bike in the city area is also a very welcome kamikaze sport to satisfy my Thanatos drive.

• Monday 7.5 -12 K- 61 minutes - An evening run, mean to be very easy, but ... some problems with orienteering skills in the woods appeared ... funny, afterwards.
• Sunday 6.5 -18 or 19 K - 1 h 38 min. - The other moderately long run of the week after a rest day between. Quite easy to run, but anyway, the exercise felt in the muscles the next day meaning that recovery takes time.
  
• Saturday. Rest. Some physical work in the yard.
• Friday 4.5 -22 K - 2 h 1 min. - The first moderately long run of the week. The Finnish spring is not warm, it is holotna (an russian word meaning chilly, cold). Some rain, too. Anyway a very easy and a very slow run.
• Thursday. Rest. Absolutely.
• Wednesday 2.5 - 9 K - 44 minutes. Easy steady state run.

A very fine, happy week!

• Sunday 29.4 -17.4 K - 1:18:02 - Länsiväyläjuoksu, a nice mass run in Espoo, Finland. Steady state, 4:29 minutes per kilometre. Very easy to run steadily under the anaerobic threshold. Happy about that.
  
• Saturday 28.4 -50 K biking - The first bike "tour" this year.
  
• Friday 27.4 -13.5 K - 68 minutes - a run with increasing tempo (5:30/K to 4:30/K).
• Thursday 26.4 Rest.
• Wednesday 25.4 -12 K - 60 minutes. A morning run in Tampere, a wonderful inland town in Finland.
• Tuesday 24.4 -23 K (about) - 2 h 2 minutes. A moderately long run in Tampere, reaching some real forest near the town!
• Monday 23.4 -9 K - 46 min. The first day of the journey to the beloved Tampere, an easy run.

A happy week, indeed!

A new trail (there always is)

• Sunday 22.4 -a light walk in Nuuksio National Park, sunny weather, a nice rocky path.
  
• Friday 20.4 -8K- 41minutes -Rain, a hard rain falling.
  
• Wednesday 18.4 - 9K - 46 minutes- Found a new trail in neighbourhood. A very big dog with its' owner in the forest ... a friendly meeting after all.
• Sick from 2.4 to 17.4.
  

REALLY, a sick-leave of three weeks! Still feeling tired. Very easy to sleep 12 hours a night in the weekend. Anyway no problems on the short runs after the flu. And no signs of severe health problems, too.

ON Sunday 29.4 there is a short run of 17.4 kilometres called Länsiväylä -juoksu in Espoo.

Temporary Dead

IT TOOK two weeks to recover from the damned Flu. Anyway, this time Mr Mononen (look at the pic) got no customer. I 'm alive and well and disappointed. It's under four months to go --> 11.08.2007 <--- and the training has not even started.