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2009 October (3)

My trainings

Well, November wasn't very good month for me, because I was sick for two weeks. I got the flu, so I had to take a rest. I did just 11 trainings and ran 135k/84miles. That's not much. But I am happy that I didn't have to much complications and I am totally good right now :) I hope that this winter won't be hard for me, if talking about diseases. Here you can see my trainings descriptions:)


2009.11.30

Training
distance - 10k
weather conditions - 36 by Farenheit.
place: 8k on asphalt, 2k in forest.
Today I was running alone. And as it always happens when you run alone... I ran pretty slow. I don't know, but I think that my pace was about 5min20sec/1k :) Quite slow for me. But it's good, I wasn't tired at all and came home feeling very good:) Today I ran in a different forest, it's always good to change your running place. I like running because your playground is everywhere: all forests, parks, streets and so on :) I think that this week will be pretty similar like last one, so sorry if I don't write something very interesting for you :) Good luck to you :)


2009.11.28

Training
distance - 10k
weather conditions - 38 by Farenheit.
place: 9k on asphalt, 1k in forest.
Today I ran in the morning. I didn't sleep very much, so my brains didn't wark all the training. It was just my body :) My mind was totally empty, no thought about nothing. Just running :) The first 5k was pretty easy, but the second part was very hard. I don't know what happened, but just after 5k I felt quite bad. It was very hard to run and my legs were very heavy. I just wanted to run home. Hopefully, it won't happen again :) Good luck :)


2009.11.27

Training
distance - 10k
weather conditions - 44 by Farenheit.
place: 4k on asphalt, 6k in forest.
Today it was pretty hard to run in the beginning. Firt 3 k was pretty slow, but it helped later to run a little bit faster :) In a forest we met one old runner, he's I think as old as my trainer, but he's really great. He still competes in races and so on :) So we walked up one hill and I think this short walk helped me to recover a little and to run much better :) As I said on Monday, my trainings will be quite the same, because I have to recover. So, there's not much to say. I wish you the best :) And have a nice weekend.


2009.11.25

Training
distance - 10k
weather conditions - 44 by Farenheit.
place: 4k on asphalt, 6k in forest.
Today in the beginning of my training I felt really bad. First mile vas very very slow and I thought that I couldn't run any more. I always run the first to our meeting place, because I like to do stretching exercises before long run. But today I didn't do anything, just walked. But I think that 10 minutes break helped me. I was able to run all the time, but not very fast. Really much slower than yesterday, but in the end it was pretty good. No bad feelings. Tomorrow I will have a break, resting time :) I hope that on Friday everything will be ok. By the way, today I have a new interview with one woman. She is ready for a big challenge: to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks :) It's really amazing. I hope that everything will be OK with her :) Read about it here. Good luck to everyone and have your own challenges, and beat them :)


2009.11.24

Training
distance - 8k
weather conditions - 44 by Farenheit.
place: 4k on asphalt, 4 in forest.
Today's training was pretty the same like yesterday's :) Just the weather was much more cloudy. I felt almost the same all training. It's really good that I feel so good :) I like ot very much. I think that all this week I'll be running 8-10k, not more. So it won't be an interesting one :) No fartleks, tempo runs or running uphills :) It will be pretty simple, for recovery :)


2009.11.23

Training
distance - 8k
time - about 38minutes
weather conditions - 44 by Farenheit.
place: 4k on asphalt, 4 in forest.
Hello hello to everyone :) This is a happy day for me. At last running. The weather was pretty good. It was quite a surprise for me because I could run quite fast, no problems, no pain. Everything was amazingly fine :) My trainer ran about 11km before our training, because he knew that I can't run much. I am very happy that I am not weak as I expected. I am really able to run 14k or even more and it wouldn't be exhausting. I hope that I will be as fast as I was two weeks ago very soon. Good luck to everyone :)


2009.11.07

Training:
distance - 25k/15,5miles
time - 1h 50minutes
pace - 4.20/1k
weather conditions - 34 by Farenheit.
place: 25k on asphalt.
Today we decided to run all the time on asphalt, because there's a lot of snow in the forests. The weather was pretty good, not so cold. But it's quite annoying to run along the road. Cars make so much noise. I always try to avoid such places, but today we didn't have another choice :) But just for one time, it's not a matter. In the end of running (maybe after 22k) my hips was very heavy. 2 last miles was pretty hard, I think this is because of running on asphalt all the time. My legs are not used to asphalt now. On Saturdays we always do the longest run, but I love it the most. It's a little bit exhausting, but interesting :) So, have a nice weekend everybody :)

2009.11.06

Training:
distance - 10k
weather conditions - cloudy, 33,8 by Farenheit and a lot of snow
place: 3k on asphalt, 7k in forest.
We have a lot of snow in our city today. And a lot of in forest too. So it was pretty hard to run today. When we were running downhills , it was not running, it was skiing :) And it's quite hard to run uphills, I was almost climbing :) I don't recommend to run in a forest when there are a lot of snow, you can get serious injuries. So tomorrow we will try to run on asphalt, unless all snow will melt until tomorrow. And it's very wet, the temperature is 33,8, so snow is melting but not so much. It's very slippery. But then the temperature is about 25 and the snow is dry it's pretty good to run, not so dangerous :) It was maybe the third training when I feel some pain in my back. I will try to strech it more, I hope it helps. It's really annoying and I can't concentrate on running. Have a nice weekend everybody :)

2009.11.04

Training:
distance - 15k/9,3miles
time - 1h 6minutes
pace - 4.24/1k
weather conditions - snow, 26,6 by Farenheit.
place: 4k on asphalt, 11k in forest.
Today's training was real improvisation :) Well, the forest where I am running is pretty big and there are a lot of (hundreds and thousands) paths :) So today we tried quite a lot of new paths. There were lots of hills, little valleys and so on. It was amazing. Once we even ran in the place there were no path. It was a very steep and quite hard to run, bet I enjoyed all running very much. It even started to snow :) So christmas is coming to our town :) It was really nice. It's good to improvise when running. You should change your running as much as you can. It's more interesting :) So toworrow I am having a free day. See you later :)

2009.11.03

Training:
distance - ~11k + fartlek: 5 times uphill
time - I didn't have a watch, but all training took about 1hour 10 minutes
weather conditions - clear, 26,6 by Farenheit.
place: 4k on asphalt, 7k in forest.

Today I was alone, but the training was really good. I decided to run by the river called Neman. It's the longest river in Lithuania. I took very narrow and winding path. So it always seemed that I am running pretty fast. That path is almost unseen, because it's covered by leaves and I think that just fishermen sometimes use it:) But the view was amazing. Fall is very beautiful time of the year. I saw the sunset too :) I forgot to say that yesterday I saw two roes on my way. I love such things, you are so close to nature when running:)

So today I had to do fartlek. I chose one hill, which is maybe 150 meters long. So how I do fartlek uphills: Such runs uphills is very good for endurance and for speed increase. Maybe you don't feel that increase after one week, but if you do it 2 times a week for one month or longer, it really helps. So see you tomorrow :) Have a nice run :)


2009.11.02

Training:
distance - 18k/11,2miles
time - 1h 20minutes
pace - 4.27/1k
weather conditions - clear, 28,4 by Farenheit.
place: 5k on asphalt, 13k in forest.

Today was pretty good day again :) It's getting colder and colder everyday, but it doesn't matter when you really want to run. So I enjoy sunny, but chilly weather :) So today we ran first 4 miles quite slowly, but all other distance was much faster. I felt very good during today's training, no problems with legs or stomach :) Lately we finish our training almost in darkness, but it's good that last mile is in the city, so it's quite light :) Tomorrow we will do some fartlek uphills. It will be a little bit harder :) See you tomorrow.