Sunday 23 June 2013

30-26 days left...

... and I have to write about four days at the same time depending on my journey up to our house in the mountains where Internet doesn't work at all which is both good and a little bad. Perhaps most good I think because I can run without thinking of the blog, Twitter or Facebook. Sometimes that's #ELS I can assure!
Well, here we go with the first of four days.
Swedish summer...

30 days left:
It's wednesday and the very last day at work before about 8 weeks summer vacation. Being a teacher is probably one of the most important and enjoyable job there is. Well, the vacation at summer and X-mas isn't bad either, and it's needed... :-)
Me and a colleague, John, finished work at 10 am so we went hom to me for a GREAT run, food and beer ;-) My friend is a very good XC-skier and runner. He just did about 35:30 min in a 10K race! Well, he's fast and we went out slow and just increased... Hard running but very fun though. After the run we ate, took some beer and just chilled in the sun... :-)
Thank's John, for waking the speed-nerv alive again!!

29 days left:
No run today! To much to fix and pack for the trip up to the mountains :-) Well, Elton broke a claw and had to go to a veterinarian for bandaging. Fourth time now and we are looking to amputate it away. It is the fifth clone that sits part way up the leg so he will not miss it!
Here's the little cottage in the mountains we celebrated the Swedish Midsummer.


Some nice views around the area...




28 days left:
Today it's Midsummer and there usually are great festivities in Sweden this very day. The longest day of the year! I did my run before the food... and beer ;-) It felt good so I did about 4,52 miles in about 44:26 min. Great views!
At the start you got a great view after just one mile
Upper left: "The Old Road", Upper right: "Nice run by the river Ljusnan

Another nice view by the river Ljusnan.
If you get thirsty on the run? Well, just stop and drink! :-)
27 days left:
Today it rained in the mountains. A lot! We already had fixed everything so we decided to go home earlier. When coming home the weather was much better so I did a evening-run. Very nice! Felt good so I decided to run a bit... I did 12,2 miles in 1:36:38 h. Well, not that fast but once again I'm not going for times just now. More endurance ;-) Felt quite good though and the evening was great!


26 days left:
Today I Today I took down part of the fence. It's about 40 years old and I must build a new one. Well, after that work I went for a run. I was just a little stiff in my legs but felt ok after a couple of miles. I decided to do at least 10 miles today. I ran 10,25 miles in 1:26:20h. Felt ok and did some nice hill-running at the end (from 4-8,5 miles!). See it on Endomondo here!

Elton with his "funnel" so he can't lick on his toe!

Well, I met som people out there who cheered at me and asked how my running was going! Thank's people! Yes, we said Hello and also Smiled to each other :-)

Easy, Light and Smooth!
/Flexirun

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