MASOCHIST'S DREAM is Backwood Hillbillies' Open Championships of 100 km run. It will be held on August 2008 in Helsinki, Finland.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

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, May 7, 2007

  • 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.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

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!