A lot is happening during the long run

again, 30km on the program today. I was sweating already by looking at it on the project white board. Right away the big one at the beginning of the week. This is not for low-hanging-fruit biz lingo juggler starbucks latte joggers, but rather the heavy duty construction workers type of runner (minus the beer bottle).

Headed from work over icy parkways to the beloved indoor sports arena. Added a 1km detour just to have one more km on the meter before continuing on the 400m track and thus reducing the laps from 55 to 52 and a half (yeeeeh).

A colleague from work promised to come by and do a couple of laps, that was nice of him,  since there was no-one doing the same pace whom I could have joined. Running those laps alone is deadly boring. I preferred the indoor track simply because it’s faster to run on and the 30km take about 2:15h instead of 2:30h on those icy roads.

Petteri showed up, joined in, we did about 3km together, then his calf cramped and he had to stop. We should have taken it a bit easier, the 4:15 - 4:30min/km pace wasn’t such a good idea.

Later at km 20, went to the water tap next to the track and had a couple of gulps of water. When resuming on the track a stinging pain spread from the outside of the left knee. It forced me to start with a 6min pace and only over the course of about 1.5km I could come back to the normal training pace (4:20min/km). This repeated itself at another stop around 25km and the pain was felt albeit not much all the way back to the changing rooms at work. This got me really worrying. This Mondo track might not be a good track to run on longer distances after all. It’s now to choose between icy roads or a knee killing Mondo track…

today’s training: the long run 30km in 4:35min/km

Tags: esport arena, long run