Lida Löparfestival 18k trail race, Lida Naturreservat. What a wonderful trail race! Very runnable and beautiful trail course in Tullinge on heavily undulating ski tracks. Otherwise very runnable but steep hills made it tough. Could feel early on yesterday's cycling in my quads but somehow I managed to ignore the pain and ran a decent race very close to the men's winner. I started offensively and ran the first two kilometres at 4:15 pace with the top two men. But they pushed hard in the hills and after a while I couldn't keep up with them anymore. Then I was on my own some kilometres until a third guy came and passed me in the toughest ascend a bit before the half way mark and left me quickly behind. After the drink stop at 9k I got some new energy and decided to push harder in order to keep the guy in sight and after a while there was an easier stretch where I managed to close the gap between us inch by inch. At 13k I caught up with him but he noticed it and left me again in the next hills. I closed the gap one more time but he wasn't happy to have me on his heels and he pushed hard the last 5k. I kept seeing him but had no chance catching him in the hills. Anyway I was happy to finish as first lady not too far behind the fastest guys :) Results:
https://results.sporthive.com/events/6271690710827...