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Friday Sep 28, 2007 #
Note
(sick) (rest day)
Yup. Fever, headache, sore throat, the works.
Wednesday Sep 26, 2007 #
Running 16:00 [2] 1.88 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Jogging from Polckasbacken to backbana start and back.
Running 29:33 [3] 5.0 km (5:55 / km) +300m 4:33 / km
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
An easyish run around the backbana with Rob, chatting away until it got hard towards the end. Felt pretty bad warming up and in the beginning, but then went better. Nice to be out during lunch.
Orienteering 1:10:42 [2] *** 7.07 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Training with Andrew on Nåsten. We ran with one map of the H21 course from the Linné long champs and one blank map. The person with the course was leading and would stop at some point in the woods and switch maps with the follower. The follower was then to continue from that point to the next control and so on. It's a good exercise for paying attention and concentrating, especially in a situation where it's easy to just cruise along and not really pay attention to the map.
Tuesday Sep 25, 2007 #
Running 15:00 [2] 1.76 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Warm-up, cool-down
Orienteering race 1:17:01 [3] *** 8.6 km (8:57 / km)
spiked:6/12c shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
OK Linné's club night champs. My (and almost everyone else's) first night-O of the season, on a nice warm September night. This was held in Sigtuna, on the same map we just ran the district relay champs two weeks ago. I took this at slightly-lower-than-race speed and tried to know where I was at all times and avoid going off my bearing. I mostly succeeded, though some mistakes were still made, and I wasn't nearly aggressive enough going through rough terrain. Hopefully, this will come with more night-O's this fall and winter. Johan Höij crushed everyone with his 55 minutes, with no one else from the club under 64.
Monday Sep 24, 2007 #
Running 51:38 [2] 6.07 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Planned to do a bit of Night-O, just to remember what it was like before Tuesday's club night-O champs, but Kat's battery was dead, so we went for a jog on the Norby lit track instead. My left shin started hurting towards the end. A bit worrying.
Sunday Sep 23, 2007 #
Running 20:00 [2] 2.22 mi (9:00 / mi)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Warm-up and even a bit of a cool-down
Orienteering race 1:26:43 [4] **** 10.6 km (8:11 / km) +465m 6:43 / km
spiked:15/21c shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Swedish Relay Champs near Halmstad, Halland.
First of all, Linné's team 1 (Johan Höij, Mats Troeng, Mattias Millinger, Jan Troeng) WON!!!! Johan came in with the leaders on leg 1, Mats dominated on leg 2, giving Mattias a 7-minute lead, and then Mattias and Jan held on to win by about 4 minutes. Fantastic result! Here is the article in Uppsala Nya Tidning: http://www2.unt.se/avd/1,1786,MC=4-AV_ID=655670,00...
For Linné's team 4, things did not go quite as well. Liutas started us off with a very good 1st leg, exchanging to me in 33rd place. I proceeded to run about 300 meters before falling in a muddy swamp, smacking my knee hard on a rock, and covering all of myself and the map in mud. By the time I cleaned off enough of the map to be able to see anything at all, a bunch of teams had already passed me. My knee hurt, so I had to walk for a while, and finally started running again close to the 1st control. Ended up losing 4 minutes and 16 (!!) places on that leg. Things went better after that. The knee loosened up, and I started feeling pretty good. Then, when crossing a waist-deep river I had a chance to wash off my map, so I could actually see where we were headed. Settled into a nice pace and started hitting controls and passing other teams. Things went well and I was having a lot of fun until the spectator control, after which the wheels came off again. I must have been more tired than I thought, because I managed to miss 5 of the last 9 controls, losing over 5 minutes in the process. Very frustrating, because the first half of the course (except the debacle on 1) was about the best I'd felt running and orienteering all fall. Ended up exchanging to Björn in 45th place, which is where he and Patrick kept us with two solid runs.
Here are the winsplits for my forking (over all 4 legs of the relay): http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...
And here are plain old results, with Linné teams in 1st, 16th, 34th, and 45th: http://toolbox.svenskidrott.se/Downloads/104100/do...
By the way, the terrain here was very different from what we have Uppsala: a lot more climb, a lot of stuff underfoot, and very wet on the ground. Reminded me a bit of West Point maps, actually.
First of all, Linné's team 1 (Johan Höij, Mats Troeng, Mattias Millinger, Jan Troeng) WON!!!! Johan came in with the leaders on leg 1, Mats dominated on leg 2, giving Mattias a 7-minute lead, and then Mattias and Jan held on to win by about 4 minutes. Fantastic result! Here is the article in Uppsala Nya Tidning: http://www2.unt.se/avd/1,1786,MC=4-AV_ID=655670,00...
For Linné's team 4, things did not go quite as well. Liutas started us off with a very good 1st leg, exchanging to me in 33rd place. I proceeded to run about 300 meters before falling in a muddy swamp, smacking my knee hard on a rock, and covering all of myself and the map in mud. By the time I cleaned off enough of the map to be able to see anything at all, a bunch of teams had already passed me. My knee hurt, so I had to walk for a while, and finally started running again close to the 1st control. Ended up losing 4 minutes and 16 (!!) places on that leg. Things went better after that. The knee loosened up, and I started feeling pretty good. Then, when crossing a waist-deep river I had a chance to wash off my map, so I could actually see where we were headed. Settled into a nice pace and started hitting controls and passing other teams. Things went well and I was having a lot of fun until the spectator control, after which the wheels came off again. I must have been more tired than I thought, because I managed to miss 5 of the last 9 controls, losing over 5 minutes in the process. Very frustrating, because the first half of the course (except the debacle on 1) was about the best I'd felt running and orienteering all fall. Ended up exchanging to Björn in 45th place, which is where he and Patrick kept us with two solid runs.
Here are the winsplits for my forking (over all 4 legs of the relay): http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...
And here are plain old results, with Linné teams in 1st, 16th, 34th, and 45th: http://toolbox.svenskidrott.se/Downloads/104100/do...
By the way, the terrain here was very different from what we have Uppsala: a lot more climb, a lot of stuff underfoot, and very wet on the ground. Reminded me a bit of West Point maps, actually.
Saturday Sep 22, 2007 #
Note
Day off. Spent most of the day in the minibus on the way to Halmstad. Had a headache when we got to the military barracks we were staying in (think West Point barracks, only with heating and running water, both cold and hot), so decided to skip the planned jog.
Friday Sep 21, 2007 #
Orienteering 1:25:25 [2] 8.0 km (10:41 / km)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Orienteering on Nåsten with Kat - we did the women's course from the long KM that was back in August. Orienteered ok mostly, though legs felt pretty tired.
Thursday Sep 20, 2007 #
Running 42:45 [2] 4.75 mi (9:00 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
Warming up, cooling down, jogging between intervals.
Running 24:00 [5] 4.8 mi (5:00 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
Intervals on the horse trail in Stadsskogen by myself. Did 8x3 min with 1 min rest. Sore - muscles still tired from backbana. Hopefully will be fresh by Sunday!
Wednesday Sep 19, 2007 #
Running 1:12:45 [2] 8.31 mi (8:45 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Too sore from yesterday to do anything hard, so I went for a run with Kat. To KG, one lap around the test course (two herds of cows and one herd of sheep encountered), and back home.
Tuesday Sep 18, 2007 #
Running 35:58 [2] 4.23 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Running from Polacksbacken to backbana with Kat, plus jogging with Lars afterwards and an extended cool-down with Kat. (Extended because I forgot my office keys under a rock...)
Running 26:07 [5] 5.0 km (5:13 / km) +300m 4:01 / km
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Backbana. Ran it with Lars, and decided to finally see how fast I could run this if I tried to run hard on the flats and downhills too, not just the uphills. Lars kept getting way ahead on the downhills anyway, and I made up ground on the uphills. Quite pleased with the time, though I pretty much died on the last two hills.
Orienteering 1:15:40 [2] **** 8.5 km (8:54 / km)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Pre-running the H21 course for OK Linné's national event at Lunsen this week-end. It was such a pleasure to run on Lunsen! It's been a while since I'd run there, and I'd almost forgotten just how great it is. Took it nice and easy, lots of glances at the map, reading tons of features and looking ahead. Started getting cold and dark by the end, but quite a fine experience otherwise.
Note
OK Linné's teams for the Swedish relay champs next week-end have been named: http://www.oklinne.nu/index.php?page=uk/uk_main.ph...
It will be cool to run my first Swedish champs! Kat is running too - and also on the 4th Linné team.
It will be cool to run my first Swedish champs! Kat is running too - and also on the 4th Linné team.
Monday Sep 17, 2007 #
Running 1:03:40 [2] 7.96 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
Recovery run around Stadsskogen, following Kat around while she tried to find the tiniest little trails for us to run on. Very nice day today, almost felt like September oughta feel.
Sunday Sep 16, 2007 #
Running 15:00 [2] 1.76 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Warm-up
Orienteering race 1:07:44 [3] *** 8.0 km (8:28 / km)
spiked:13/17c shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Sumpslitet. Forgot how to orienteer. Not a good week-end.
Saturday Sep 15, 2007 #
Running 20:00 [2] 2.35 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Warm-up
Orienteering race 35:00 [4] *** 4.5 km (7:47 / km)
spiked:13/17c shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Brommakorten.
Friday Sep 14, 2007 #
Running 25:53 [2] 3.34 mi (7:45 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
Run around the neighborhood. Stiff and sore at first, better towards the end.
Thursday Sep 13, 2007 #
Running 2:00:19 [2] 21.88 km (5:30 / km)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Nice long run, mostly on Nåsten paths and rides, with Rob, Andrew, and Patrick. We should form an English-speaking sub-chapter of OK Linné....except that neither Andrew nor Rob are in Linné, and what Patrick speaks only somewhat qualifies as English. :)
Felt quite good most of the way, though was on the verge of bonking the last fifteen minutes or so. Oh yeah, I also had a bike crash in the afternoon and fell on my head. That wasn't fun.
Felt quite good most of the way, though was on the verge of bonking the last fifteen minutes or so. Oh yeah, I also had a bike crash in the afternoon and fell on my head. That wasn't fun.
Wednesday Sep 12, 2007 #
Running 1:01:48 [2] 6.87 mi (9:00 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
Long warm-up, cool-down, jogging between intervals.
Running 13:30 [5] 2.7 mi (5:00 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
Intervals with the club on the elljusspår in Stadsskogen.
Did (90 sec on, 60 sec off, 45 sec on, 120 sec off) x 6. Felt fairly tired from yesterday, and many of the people who ran the relay intervals yesterday didn't show up today. Still, felt nice to run hard.
Did (90 sec on, 60 sec off, 45 sec on, 120 sec off) x 6. Felt fairly tired from yesterday, and many of the people who ran the relay intervals yesterday didn't show up today. Still, felt nice to run hard.
Tuesday Sep 11, 2007 #
Note
The new WinSplits has finally been released!
First, a disclaimer: since I have done most of the translation of WinSplits into English, I am definitely not an unbiased or impartial observer. Nevertheless, having tested and played with WinSplits Pro at home for the last couple of months, I think it's totally awesome and is the perfect toy for the orienteering nerd. Try out the trial version and see what you think!
First, a disclaimer: since I have done most of the translation of WinSplits into English, I am definitely not an unbiased or impartial observer. Nevertheless, having tested and played with WinSplits Pro at home for the last couple of months, I think it's totally awesome and is the perfect toy for the orienteering nerd. Try out the trial version and see what you think!
Note
Running 18:22 [2] 2.03 mi (9:03 / mi)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Running from Polacksbacken to the start of backbana and back.
Running 33:37 [3] 5.06 km (6:39 / km) +300m 5:07 / km
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Running the backbana with Kat, mostly right behind her, telling her where to turn. She did well, looking especially fast on the downhills and pretty strong on the uphills, too.
Running 30:00 [2] 3.33 mi (9:00 / mi)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Lots of jogging around.
Orienteering 18:54 [5] 3.78 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Tonight's training was a whole-club relay, meant for people to get to know each other a bit, promote club spirit, and have a bit of fun in the process. Each team consisted of 1 H21, 1 D21/H45/H18, 1 D18/H14/DH55, and 1 beginner (usually HD10). People were divided into these categories, and then teams were picked by lottery. There were 14 teams in all. And then the relay was run. The leg order was set up such that each category got sufficient rest, and H21's ran 5 legs, D21's 4, and so on. The final leg was run by the whole team together, with the youngest member doing the navigation. It was a lot of fun, and it was nice to see most of the club's top runners turn up for this and actually take it seriously - run hard for their teams. My team consisted of Mari Troeng, Filip Axelsson-Meyerson, a small girl named Vanja, and myself actually managed to win.
Leg times: 3:38, 4:17, 4:02, 2:37, 4:20.
Leg times: 3:38, 4:17, 4:02, 2:37, 4:20.
Monday Sep 10, 2007 #
Running 37:45 [2] 4.72 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
A loop starting at the house, going through Hågaby and Eriksberg, and ending in Stadsskogen. Ran with Kat, Patrick, and Andrew.
Orienteering 28:30 [2] ** 3.56 km (8:00 / km)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
We came to the first session of quasi-beginner orienteering clinics for students that Lina Å and a few others were organizing. They used the women's course from the club middle distance champs to train on, and Kat wanted to run it. I did it in reverse order, moving one control to the right spot in the process. Cold and wet.
Sunday Sep 9, 2007 #
Running 15:00 [2] 1.76 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Warm-up, plus a bit of a cool-down with Kat.
Orienteering race 1:10:03 [4] *** 9.6 km (7:18 / km)
spiked:13/18c shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
District relay champs, combined for Uppland and Stockholm, except that Stockholm's teams had four legs, and ours only had three. You'd think that after 17 years of orienteering, I would know that it's actually good to look at your map during a mass start race. Apparently not. I ran the first leg and, as usual, right from the start, everyone took off, including me. Ran as hard as I could to stay with the pack, meaning perhaps just two glances at the map during the very long first leg. One more glance would have been nice. Came to the wrong fork's control, then the other fork's, still not mine. Immediately realized where I was and took off for my control. Found it, losing probably 1.5 minutes but, more importantly, also losing the pack. Hit #2 just fine, catching up to a few guys, and then - repeated by idiocy from #1 going to #3!!! Again didn't look at the map enough and came to the wrong fork. This time, a bigger mistake - I overran and had to go back along a rocky hillside. Probably up to 3 minutes lost, and the run already ruined. Finally started orienteering by myself after this, and things went better, but there is now way I could make up time on the leaders. Finished over 15 (!!) minutes behind Mats, who exchanged in the lead. The rest of my team didn't have its best day either, and we finished as the 6th Linné team and 8th overall in Uppland. First four teams were from Linné.
Results: http://www.canit.se/sigtunaok/ResultatUppl/Klasser...
Map: http://files.myopera.com/borisgr/albums/264633/IMG...
Results: http://www.canit.se/sigtunaok/ResultatUppl/Klasser...
Map: http://files.myopera.com/borisgr/albums/264633/IMG...
Saturday Sep 8, 2007 #
Running 20:00 [2] 2.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Warm-up, partway with Kat.
Orienteering race 34:06 [4] *** 4.9 km (6:58 / km)
spiked:15/17c shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Uppland-DM, Middle Distance, organized by Länna.
Pouring rain the whole day, and I had the last start, meaning huddling in the club tent as people came and went, and finally trudging out to the start after a few minutes after Kat had finished, with a very good run.
Ran all alone the whole way and kept up a good pace throughout. Felt like I was running well and orienteering really sharply for the most part. The only control I didn't have a plan on, #4, I paid dearly on, losing almost 2 minutes there. Otherwise, a good run with just one more 30 second parallel error on #13. Solid otherwise, good for 15th place overall, 12th out of Linné runners.
Results: http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...
Map: http://files.myopera.com/borisgr/albums/264633/IMG...
Pouring rain the whole day, and I had the last start, meaning huddling in the club tent as people came and went, and finally trudging out to the start after a few minutes after Kat had finished, with a very good run.
Ran all alone the whole way and kept up a good pace throughout. Felt like I was running well and orienteering really sharply for the most part. The only control I didn't have a plan on, #4, I paid dearly on, losing almost 2 minutes there. Otherwise, a good run with just one more 30 second parallel error on #13. Solid otherwise, good for 15th place overall, 12th out of Linné runners.
Results: http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...
Map: http://files.myopera.com/borisgr/albums/264633/IMG...
Note
Another little comparison of results. This one is from Uppland's Medel-DM, 2005-2007.
2005: 25th/45, 45.4% behind winner
2006: 20th/44, 30.9% behind winner
2007: 15th/43, 23.6% behind winner
2005: 25th/45, 45.4% behind winner
2006: 20th/44, 30.9% behind winner
2007: 15th/43, 23.6% behind winner
Thursday Sep 6, 2007 #
Running 16:00 [2] 2.0 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Running over to the start of backbana from school, and back.
Running 28:41 [4] 5.0 km (5:44 / km) +300m 4:25 / km
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Lunchtime backbana. Ran 1 lap, trying to take relatively "easy", which is hard to do on backbana. Legs felt tired from the intervals yesterday, which didn't help things, but my time ended up pretty decent - the fastest i've run so far, I think. I've never actually raced backbana for fear of breaking some body parts on the really steep downhills, but maybe i'll try it one of these days just to see.
Wednesday Sep 5, 2007 #
Running 25:08 [2] 3.28 mi (7:40 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
My first morning jog around the block in what seems like ages. Sunny and cool, nice morning for running.
Running 48:00 [2] 5.65 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
Running over to Blodan with Kat, warm-up, jogging/walking between intervals, cool-down.
Running 32:00 [4] 5.47 mi (5:51 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
Threshold intervals in Stadsskogen with Andrew. I did 8x4 minutes with 1 min rest. As usual struggled a bit in the beginning, but then felt better and better as we went on. Nice, tough work-out.
Tuesday Sep 4, 2007 #
Running 30:00 [2] 3.53 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
Warm-up with Kat, running to the start, cool-down with TYRTOM.
Orienteering race 17:39 [5] *** 2.7 km (6:32 / km)
spiked:15/17c shoes: Saucony 2006
OK Linné's Sprint Club Champs.
A really fun, tricky course set by Jan and Björn on the Castle map. Lots of route choice, as well as dead-ends and uncrossable walls to worry about. I almost ran into one dead-end and got trapped by one wall, but had a good race otherwise. Finished 7th overall, and 2nd best Linné runner out of those who didn't draw the map (the piece I field-checked hasn't been added yet.) TYRTOM was in town, and we jogged around afterwards and cheered Kat on her way to the last few controls. She was flying!
Here is a short article I wrote about the race for the club website (in English): http://www.oklinne.nu/index.php?page=news&id=2111
WinSplits: http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...
RouteGadget:
http://www.oklinne.nu/routegadget/cgi-bin/reitti.c...
A really fun, tricky course set by Jan and Björn on the Castle map. Lots of route choice, as well as dead-ends and uncrossable walls to worry about. I almost ran into one dead-end and got trapped by one wall, but had a good race otherwise. Finished 7th overall, and 2nd best Linné runner out of those who didn't draw the map (the piece I field-checked hasn't been added yet.) TYRTOM was in town, and we jogged around afterwards and cheered Kat on her way to the last few controls. She was flying!
Here is a short article I wrote about the race for the club website (in English): http://www.oklinne.nu/index.php?page=news&id=2111
WinSplits: http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...
RouteGadget:
http://www.oklinne.nu/routegadget/cgi-bin/reitti.c...
Monday Sep 3, 2007 #
Running 38:16 [2] 4.78 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Recovery jog around Nåsten and Norby before the training group meeting. Stiff in the beginning, but felt better towards the end. The continuing stomach problems are worrying me, though.
Kat is here tomorrow!!!
Kat is here tomorrow!!!
Sunday Sep 2, 2007 #
Running 15:00 [2] 1.76 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Warming up and getting my body to wake up. Felt quite stiff and not in race mode during the warm-up.
Orienteering race 1:45:47 [4] **** 13.1 km (8:05 / km)
spiked:19/23c shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Upplands Lång-DM, organized by Vallentuna-Össeby near Åkersberga.
It's been a long time since I'd run an actual long race, so I felt uneasy on the warm-up, as my body refused to wake up. However, the straight uphill start woke me up pretty quickly, and I felt fine the rest of the way physically. Navigation was another story, as I missed time on #2 (1:00), #3 (2:00), and #5 (3:00). It was really detailed stuff, and I didn't approach it cautiously enough. Plus, it's been a while since I'd raced in really detailed Uppland terrain. That was disappointing, but things went better after that. I was caught by Ola Hultin from 6 minutes back, and ran with him for a while, sometimes taking the lead, sometimes behind. Then we split up on the long leg to 15, and it looks like I got ahead again. Unfortunately, I got stuck in some nasty green on the next long leg, to 18, and lost two minutes. I saw Ola again leaving 18 and ran hard to catch and pass him. Felt good all the way to the finish and navigated quite cleanly in the end. Finished 12th, with Johan Höij winning in 83 minutes - an impressive time!
Also, I think one reason I didn't hit the wall today was because I took a gel that you could open and close again, and so instead of taking it all at once, I took a couple of sips at a time a few times during the course. That seemed to work well, and I'll be trying it again.
Results: http://www.vallentunaosseby.nu/arrange/2007/dm/str...
Map: http://my.opera.com/borisgr/albums/showpic.dml?alb...
It's been a long time since I'd run an actual long race, so I felt uneasy on the warm-up, as my body refused to wake up. However, the straight uphill start woke me up pretty quickly, and I felt fine the rest of the way physically. Navigation was another story, as I missed time on #2 (1:00), #3 (2:00), and #5 (3:00). It was really detailed stuff, and I didn't approach it cautiously enough. Plus, it's been a while since I'd raced in really detailed Uppland terrain. That was disappointing, but things went better after that. I was caught by Ola Hultin from 6 minutes back, and ran with him for a while, sometimes taking the lead, sometimes behind. Then we split up on the long leg to 15, and it looks like I got ahead again. Unfortunately, I got stuck in some nasty green on the next long leg, to 18, and lost two minutes. I saw Ola again leaving 18 and ran hard to catch and pass him. Felt good all the way to the finish and navigated quite cleanly in the end. Finished 12th, with Johan Höij winning in 83 minutes - an impressive time!
Also, I think one reason I didn't hit the wall today was because I took a gel that you could open and close again, and so instead of taking it all at once, I took a couple of sips at a time a few times during the course. That seemed to work well, and I'll be trying it again.
Results: http://www.vallentunaosseby.nu/arrange/2007/dm/str...
Map: http://my.opera.com/borisgr/albums/showpic.dml?alb...
Saturday Sep 1, 2007 #
Running 1:34:37 [2] 11.47 mi (8:15 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Just the perfect day to start the fall with! Sunny, a bit breezy, and just warm enough that it actually feels warm, and not hot. The perfect day for a nice run on the trails in Nåsten, in other words. Took a swing past Flogsta to drop off Patrick's keys, and then off to the forest. A mix of small and big trails, as well as a couple of stretches I've never been to before. Very enjoyable run. How can I even think of leaving this place, with all of these great places right outside my door??
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