My Personal Trainer Sanna told me to do my weekly longer run a) with a little bit faster pace or b) covering a 100 m longer distance compared to my previous run. Well, I almost managed to do both since the pace was exactly the same as on my previous run but I also ran a little bit further: 10,5 km to be exact. I was actually planning to go for 11 km, but my lower back started hurting pretty badly after the first 6,5 - 7 km or so and it was quite a struggle to keep running. I decided to bite through it but I must say that the last kilometres were not enjoyable at all and my pace slowed down a bit too. I think my lower back muscles were still too stiff and sore after Friday's gym session, which mostly concentrated on training the back muscles. Apparently not a good combination!
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Another thing that annoyed me during the run was that we (that's me and my husband) could only go running when it was already getting dark. There is only a stretch of 1 km with street lights around where we live so you have to time your outdoors exercise carefully during the autumn-winter season. For half of the run it was near impossible to see the road clearly and knowing that there are a lot of random potholes everywhere I felt like I had to tip-toe, trying to avoid stepping in them and hurting my ankles or some other part of my body. That obviously didn't help with the pace either...
Anyway - positive thinking: I ran a bit further, the pace stayed on the same level even though my back was killing me and I had to be careful with the potholes. Looking forward to next Saturday and the change in the running scenery - have to find a good route in Tampere!
| Date | Distance | Time | HR | Pace/km | Kcal |
| 6.10.2012 | 10,5 km | 1:15 | 164 | 7,08 min | 1016 |
| 29.9.2012 | 10,1 km | 1:11 | 163 | 7,08 min | 912 |
| 21.9.2012 | 8,3 km | 1:04 | 156 | 7,43 min | 775 |
| 2.9.2012 | 8,1 km | 1:01 | 153 | 7,34 min | 666 |
| 26.8.2012 | 7,4 km | 1:00 | 149 | 8,09 min | 632 |
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