Vertical K. Starting from Hungerburg at 900m to the Seegrube mountain station of the cable car at 1900m. Together with wife. On gravel forest ways. With lots of 🐄, 🐑 and 🐐. Drizzle, foggy. The wheat beer at the hut on the top was really nice. 🍺
We arrived at the same time. But according to Garmin:
Since my Austrian training I think I’ve been having some groin issues. I didn’t run yesterday for that reason (to give it some rest). Thought it was just soreness … but it persisted. I guess the hilly volume was a bit too much (surprisingly to me).
I’ll run (gentle) today and see how it goes. As with any injury it’s annoying. I have a long race in 3 weeks that I hope I’ll be ready for 🧐.
I may need to decrease running volume to apply gentler cross training instead.
Heute mit der Raumabanen nach Åndalsnes gefahren. Eine spektakulär schöne Bahnstrecke. Von dort ging es zum Mjølvafjellet (1216m) und weiter zur Venjesdalsbu.
Heute noch mal schnell den Munkan (775m) bestiegen. Ohne Gepäck im #trailrunning Modus🏃
Trotz Regen und Wind gab's doch sonnige Momente in dieser irre schönen Landschaft.
Celebrating my first week over 150km (with 2400m of EG). A little more than a half marathon a day on average. Did some vert on my local hill today. 🙌 (inspired by the consistency of @sebastianhahn - 🙏)
I also passed 3000km (and 59000m of EG) for the year two days ago. ⛰️🐐🙌
Really happy how the first 6 1/2 months have turned out. Including the two “by UTMB” races in Wales and Austria (56K and 107K).
Next goal the 100M at Kullamannen (another UTMB race) end of October/beginning of November. A “local” race. Just two hours driving from home. 🇸🇪
A question for my fellow runners: I will be staying in #Tromso#Norway for a few days and would like to run some nice, not too difficult trail runs of about 10km in the area that are easy to reach either by foot or by bus.
In the end, it turned out to be extremely easy to find a nice #running route in #Tromsø. Together with my oldest son we just followed the coastline for a while, then ran up a small nearby hill with lake #Prestvannet on top and then down into town and back to our hotel. No #trailRunning, but still very nice 9km 😀
And all this at about 20°C, while the rest of much of Europe is suffering from a bad heatwave with temperatures above 40°C.
The region had experienced storms 2 days earlier, and it was muddy in some places. I wasn't sure for my shoes, which one would be best for this: I don't have specific trail running shoes (yet, this was my first trail run).
I ended up with beloved Xero Prio Neo, with the insole. Good choice I think: I had all the grip from my foot, and some cushioning, but still I feel like my feet took the hardest hit, with all the roots and rocks and everything.
Fantastic trail run this morning!
Following my osteopath's advice, I had reduced from 20km to 10 km. The elevation (290m for 10km - the 20km was 2 loops) was... more fatiguing than expected, but I think I could have handle that second loop. Will see next year! I will come back for more!
Was thinking to go up to the mountains to avoid the heat, but there’s still too much snow and I didn’t feel like driving. Had a slow morning packing for local options, now it’s already 11 and 100 degrees so having a full lunch also before leaving. It’s already hot and late, might as well be well fed.
Beautiful morning. Thunderstorm blew through about an hour before sunrise. Clouds cleared quickly once the sun was up. It's already hot and going to get hotter — and staying humid. 😓 Everything was dripping, including me.
C’était tellement bon de retrouver les sensations de courir de #nuit dans les bois, les pierriers et à flanc de colline tout près du ravin 🥳
Je poste quelques clichés et une vidéo sur Pixelfed si la qualité est moins mauvaise que les conditions de lumière le laissent craindre. Mais d’abord, douche et peut-être dodo. #TrailRunning
“Is it OK to fill a little zip back with food (chips/müslibar chunks/…) when running through an aid station?”
Or is that frowned upon?
Grabbing some food and trying to carry it in sweaty hands, while drinking and getting out fast is difficult enough…. So I figured a small zip back would be handy (grab and go’).
It has happened. After 50 years of not having any reaction, it looks like I now have to be careful around poison oak, etc. The reaction is super small this time, and maybe is a fluke. Fingers crossed.
For those of you who are out in nature #trailrunning and get poison oak/ivy/sumac, what is your post run at the trailhead/car routine? Tecnu wipes? Soapy water and a wash cloth?