Café Ministeriet

Another nice evening with my best friend Martin.

Contemplating in nature

It was rather windy, that friday afternoon in September. Time for contemplation.. the forest and the ocean made me contemplate and think about my life. What is it all about? Am I happier having everything I can point at? Having the luxury to be able to run here in Aarhus in some of the most beautyful surroundings in Denmark made me feel lucky and rich. Some of us do not always appreciate what is just there. Like the nature. It's always there. But imagine that you have never seen it and just saw it for the first time.

Nature is wonderful. Perfect for contemplation - and yes, running :o)

I ran past Tivoli, in the Marselis forest, almost all the way to Moesgaard beach, back through the forest, the last two kilometres along the coast in the sand, went past Kongevejen and Marselisborg castle. What a pleasure.

Distance: 13.32 km
Duration: 01:02:33
Avg. pulse: 159
Max pulse: 176

Skive ½ marathon

The half part of the run, I kept a km pace of 5:00 but I had plenty of energy so I decided to increase the pace to about 4:00 - 4:30 which went fine.

The last 3-4 km of the route is rather hilly in a forest, that was probably the hardest part.

All in all a great run.

Avg. speed: 12,15
Avg. pulse: 161
Max pulse: 181
Duration: 1:44:13

First run after Marselis run

Yesterday evening I went for a run. In the beginning, I ran with a high intensity but I could not keep that the rest of the route due to "sidestik". I don't know why I started to get this but one of my colleagues have told me that stomach crunches should eliminate them.

The trip was fine and no rain. It's getting colder though.. brrrr.

Distance: 7.7 km
Avg. speed: 13.2 km/h
Avg. pulse: 156

Marselis run 12 km

Marselis run is over. I was a bit anxious in the beginning, probably because of all the people and the tension but when we got started, I focused on running instead.

My plan was to keep my pulse at no more than around 160-165 for the first kilometers because I knew that the killer hill would come after 6 km. That did not exactly work out as planned because I followed the crowd but still "listened" to my body and monitored my pulse and speed.

After 6 km, the hill came. Oh my oh my. It was pretty hard but I decided that I would not stop running. Some other runners did that but I wanted to get a good time so I kept running, despite my pulse was in the red zone most of the time.

4 kilometres before goal, I got "sidestik", the thing when it hurts in the side. I have no idea what it's called in english :-) So I had to reduce the speed, that was a shame because if I ran 1 minute and 55 seconds faster, I would have got a "star time". But hey, it was still five minutes and four seconds faster than last year.

Avg. pulse: 170
Max pulse: 177
Avg. speed: 13.35 km/h
Ascent: 145 metres

Training for upcoming Marselis-run

I ran longer and faster than usual to test my current shape before the up-coming Marselis run on sunday. I think it went pretty good. I did not push myself and the pulse was not that high, so I am quite optimistic concerning sunday ;o)

Distance: 15.3 km
Avg. pulse: 158
Avg. speed: 13.7 km/h
Avg. 1 km: 4.22

Lovely weather - wee :o)

Fantastic weather, a big contrast to many days with rain and windy sucky weather. The run went good. It was the first one for some days. Now I am back in Aarhus after working some days at Sealand. So back in the shoes again! ;o)

Distance: 7.7 km
Avg. speed: 13.2 km/h
Avg. pulse: 157
Max pulse: 168