Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Warm-up, cool-down, jogging between intervals, running to Hågadalsskolan after my bike chain fell off.

Secret Russian Running Drills, led by Annika.

This week I am responsible for training, which means I needed to select an appropriate place to run intervals this evening. That was hard to do, given that all the sidewalks, bike paths, and trails in Uppsala have turned into ice, with frozen bicycle tracks making for very unpleasant grooves in the ice. I was at a loss for where to go, but Mats came to the rescue and suggested that we run on the soccer fields in Ekebydalen, just outside my house. This was a great idea, and it worked out really well. The soccer fields were covered with slushy slippery snow, but at least there was no ice, so even if one fell (which, I think, no one did), it was a pretty soft landing. We did a mix of long and short intervals: (4 min on, 2 min off, 1 min on, 1 min off) x 6. There was no set loop to run, but rather, the person who is in the lead gets to pick where to run, and everyone else follows or tries to take over the lead. It was really fun, as the lead changed often, and the people in front kept turning, zig-zagging, slipping and sliding in the snow, all at full speed. A good share of snowballs was thrown, too. Most people stopped after 5 sets. I told myself in the beginning that I'd do 6, so I ran the 6th set by myself. It was really hard to keep pushing on the last one, without any company.

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Circuits after the intervals.