….and some rabbiting

Yesterday I stepped on the track for the first time since the Olympics. A friend of mine wanted someone to pace him around the training session, of some 400 in the low 70s so I took the challenge and moved along. It as beautiful weather last evening…

on the track and he must have had the easiest ride of his life behind there 🙂 My aim was to run as even paced as possible, for each 100 meter. I am already pretty good at it but not at this pace, so the small challenge was there. Guess that is the way it is with runners, you always want to meassure, know the exact figures, try to improve something/hit is right. So even now when I am “resting” I cannot resist that.. He was happy with the workout, it is always easier when you are two doing it. Keep the motivation high, and you can force the pace just that little extra (when needed). I was feeling very comfortable, of course, but the legs still benefitted from this “floating” – right at my usual threshold pace..

From now on I will also do some of my training with Henrik who is in quite good shape at the moment, running 64 in the half marathon. He will assign the pace and I will just go along. We have done this in periods before, when I am resting/not in top shape. It works great because we have such a good understanding of eachothers running mentality and attitude in general. That makes it real easy to adapt to those things.

Today only some easy running to loose up the legs. Even with the slow pace yesterday I need an easy day 😉

From Oslo,

Marius

Easy jogging

I am re-adjusting to fall/winter training now with just training a few times a week doing easy jogging.

Last year I needed a full six weeks of recovery before my body was ready to go again but this years it seems that 2-3 weeks will be…

enough for som ok training. Nothing special, maybe 1-2 intervall trainings weekly from the end of this month.

I am trying to monitor the recovery process closely so that I will not start too early. But it seems very stable at the moment and I look forward to run as I feel like for the coming period :))

From easy fall training.

Marius

Back again in Oslo

I left Athens on Sunday after watching the fantastic performance of Norwegian Javelin thrower Thorkildsen on Saturday. It was a very special evening for Norwegian athletics with a gold medal like that.

All is well. Busy days after delaying…

things until after the Olympics. Just some easy runs in between studies and getting things into system again 🙂

Just a short update from here,

Marius