2010 - A year of ups and downs

Biking
32 bike rides
1367 km
60.5 hours
140 average heart rate


Running
198 runs
2379 km
235 hours
156 average heart rate
1 Ultra (Skövde 6-timmars)
2 marathons (Stockholm and Växjö)
Lidingöploppet

January to March
It's time to make a recap of 2010. This was a year of great success and big failure from a running and biking perspective.

I started the year great. Had a lot of good long runs and maintained >200km per month during the first three months. My first ultra race (report can be found below) was probably the greatest experience during 2010. I loved the fact to run in a very slow pace (6:30 min / km) and to keep on running. No stress to deliver a specific time or distance.

After Skövde (mid March) I did a lot of things wrong. I didn't rest (took one day off and then ran 16 days in a row, including the devastating Björnrike days). We had a very nice skiing vacation in Björnrike. I haven't been skiing for 15 years and now was the time. Great fun! Problem was that I ran every evening in Björnrike - very very hilly. When I came home I had a lot of pain in the right knee. After a month I got the diagnose Bursa inflammation. Got some strong medicine and was able to run a little bit during the end of May. You can say that almost three running months were destroyed due to beginner mistakes.

Skövde 6-timmars
http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/03/skove-6-timmars.html

Apr - June
I think that I ran appr 20 km in April and 25km in May. The pain was there all the time. I managed to do some bike riding (the bursas are not that strained on a bike as they are running). April and May were the really tough months for me during 2010. I couldn't run - I couldn't do anything.

Below you will find the links to the blog posts during this time. As always I can't get it to work to have a link attached. So I guess you have to copy paste these links into your browser. Anyway - there are some good lesson learned from these link.

http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/04/knee-problem-is-vallingby-doable.html

http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/04/warning-disgusting-photo.html

http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/05/bursa-slemsack-my-problem.html

http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/05/weekly-report-things-are-going-in-right.html


Stockholm Marathon
http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/06/five-in-row-lasse-lantz-here-i-come.html

Vätternrundan
http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/06/vatternrundan-2010-totally-drained.html

Jul - Sep
Great months! I did 100km of running in June and the pain was gone. I felt so good! Tired, exhausted since my conditioning was gone but I was so happy that I could run again!!! I did 287km in July, 279km in August and 235 km in September. The shape was getting there and there was no pain at all from the bursas! I had a good Ligingölopp and I now felt that I was really 100% back to running. A very very good feeling

Lidingöloppet
http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/09/lidingoloppet-2010-tribute-to-lasse.html

Oct - Dec
Lidingö was good. I think I have to say that Växjö was good as well. I was tired but still - I did it sub 4 hours and I was back on track again! Mr L did an excellent marathon and I guess you can say that this shows how strong the effect of continuous running is - lesson learned - don't get injured!

Växjö Marathon
http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/10/vaxjo-marathon-mr-legend-is-mr-legend.html

December was an interesting month. For some reason I wanted to do more than 300km during December. I managed to do that but as you all know - December was a really snowy and cold month in Sweden.

http://lifetimerunners.blogspot.com/2010/12/december-coldest-month-in-sweden-for.html

Goals 2011
There will be no time goals at all for 2011. My plans are now to run:

Skövde 6-timmars (mid March)

Lidingö Ultra (beginning May)

Stockholm Marathon (May 28 - signed up)

Vätternrundan (June 17 - signed up)

Lidingöloppet (end September)

Växjö marathon (mid October)

I have some small plans to do this (I guess I will not do it but it sounds great fun http://www.fotrally.se/ )

I have also plan to do a 12 hour run. This will probably take place during 2012 but if someone out there wants to take the challenge then I am all in for it! Skövde has a nice ultrafestival end of August)

Time to say goodbye for this time. And these shoes will also say goodbye. They have done far too many kms. Need to buy a new pair (again).



El Maco