Weekly training update, week 5

During every mountain race that I have done, I feel – shit, I need to do loads more of hill repeats. Despite the increased amount running and training the last weeks – I will feel the same during TGC in March.

Now when Transgrancaria soon is coming up, I needed to increase the total elevation gain I do during a week. When I summarised January the total elevation done in January, it was a bit scary to see that Strava showed less elevation for a whole month, than what I will do during a single race in early March. A small comfort is that not all elevation is tracked in Strava. The meters gained on my Nordictrack x22i doesn't show up in Strava so at least I have gained more elevation gain in total, than what I will do in TGC Transgrancanaria 129k. But… have I done enough? Most likely not.

This week, I did the following training

Monday – A run with Pamela

I meant to have a rest day today, due to a high milage the previous but when Pamela asked if I could join her for a short, slow run and talk session, I couldn't say no. Together we ran just short of 7K with 136m elevation.

Tuesday – Hill repeats

I try to join every Tuesday when we run hill repeats in Väsjöbacken. Up and down outside of the ski slope we try to find new way to conquer till hill.

🎥 Video: Fun in the slope (self-hosted video not available)

Wednesday – Rest

The long awaited rest day. I really felt that I needed this day.

Thursday – On the treadmill

I can't say that I love my treadmill, but when I can earn 700m of elevation before breakfast at home, instead of going out in the morning rain – Then I at least can say that I like to have the machine at home 🙂

Friday – A morning in hill

Friday mornings we try to run in the Haga park. So we did this week as well. Though, due to all the ice, I started to feel scared. Normally I never feel scared. If I fall I fall – but now when I have so many big races coming I've for the first time started to feel that I need to take it easy, not to injure my self. 6k, and 600m of elevation to start the day.

Saturday, hills and malls

I started the weekend early, out in the Haga hill again. After a few repeats, and 1,000m of elevation I was ready to had home for a nice breakfast with the kids. Me and Estelle thereafter went to the gym for some exercise, followed by her favourite activity – a visit to the mall. Together we had a good day out!

Sunday, not as much hills as I planned

I need the elevation gain, but I didn't want to take the car again and repeat the previous two mornings in Haga. I therefore, just ran to the closest hill and did run repeats on these trails. 10k and 520m of technical forest trails.

During the afternoon, me and Pamela headed out for a scouting run, for the following Mondays Team Nordic Trail interval session. I found a very nice look on nice runnable trails. Another 10k and 220m of elevation to close the week.

Next week, I will focus on getting at least 2 running sessions in every day.