day 106: first time beyond the 100km mark, 100.8km to be precise. yes, admittedly there were a couple of last laps around the block on sunday to get the whole week to a three-figure distance, but not many were needed, though. that’s where long distance starts for real
the weather wasn’t really a friend this time. on monday it was raining and partly snowing on the 21.5k run. on thursday i wanted to be smarter and planned the route in that way that it would pass by work and the starting point of the run many times. in case, it would rain, there would be sufficient reason to cut the training session short. someone saw through that plot, everytime the path went away from work rain came down, everytime i had my way back, it would stop. these weather gods can be real little bastards sometimes.
on friday then the meeting with the gods of back pain. they came sneaking from behind these sneaky little bastards. and had me wrestled down in no time. i was walking around like a stick and every wrong move was torture. no running on friday, but rather the double pain killer dose and double run on saturday. tried the high intensity training thing on the afternoon run. however after the third sprint a suspicious feeling in the muscle of the thighs lower side made me be careful. the gods of the pulled muscles tried to come along as well, luckily i was able to convince them not to.
next week takes it again down a notch, around 85 - 90km. the third 10k test race is coming up on saturday. long distance and interval runs in the beginning of the week and then nice and relaxed for the rest. hope to be on better terms again with all kinds of gods.
