Hi Ultrafreaks !
Woke up early today (day after Skövde 6-timmars), has felt like millions of ants creeping around in my thighs all the night. Tobbe has taken some nice pics that I will publish when I am back home.
I can honestly say I was pretty nervous before start this time. I didn't feel fresh, and of course I thought about how recovered I really was after my flu .....
Anyway, after first 15km I realized that I would at least be able to manage a marathon today. Another good sign was that my HR didn't take off up to heaven as could be the case for me after lets say 30km. Tobias nad Marre was back in the park just when I reached marathon distance (4,14 I guess it was). Now I came in to the most challanging part of the 6hours run. Many of the ultra runners I did talk to had exactly the same feeling. All the way up to 5hours it's a bloody war. If you fix that without walking but still running even if slow the last hour at least for me is more or less "bonus". Except for a p-paus last hour was quit OK, I did only walk some very short periods.
So after this new 57446 meter personal ultra record I can say, the main reason for why I did it so good is that Skövde is a quite easy one for me, since my hart works perfect in these temperatures (+1C to +4C).
The team ultra swedens organisation was perfect as usual. Another secret of this success was that we where visiting the same Chinese restaurant on Friday evening as the famous El Maco himself did last year. I have never eaten so much food in my whole life, Tobbe & marre allomost carried me home :-)
More to come ......
Mr L./.
Woke up early today (day after Skövde 6-timmars), has felt like millions of ants creeping around in my thighs all the night. Tobbe has taken some nice pics that I will publish when I am back home.
I can honestly say I was pretty nervous before start this time. I didn't feel fresh, and of course I thought about how recovered I really was after my flu .....
Anyway, after first 15km I realized that I would at least be able to manage a marathon today. Another good sign was that my HR didn't take off up to heaven as could be the case for me after lets say 30km. Tobias nad Marre was back in the park just when I reached marathon distance (4,14 I guess it was). Now I came in to the most challanging part of the 6hours run. Many of the ultra runners I did talk to had exactly the same feeling. All the way up to 5hours it's a bloody war. If you fix that without walking but still running even if slow the last hour at least for me is more or less "bonus". Except for a p-paus last hour was quit OK, I did only walk some very short periods.
So after this new 57446 meter personal ultra record I can say, the main reason for why I did it so good is that Skövde is a quite easy one for me, since my hart works perfect in these temperatures (+1C to +4C).
The team ultra swedens organisation was perfect as usual. Another secret of this success was that we where visiting the same Chinese restaurant on Friday evening as the famous El Maco himself did last year. I have never eaten so much food in my whole life, Tobbe & marre allomost carried me home :-)
More to come ......
Mr L./.
Hello Mr ULTRA. Very very impressive ! As said before, you are benefitting for several years of unbroken chain of long term training. I take my hat off for you.
SvaraRaderaExcellent run. A fantastic run Mr L! It would have been great to share this with you. I will try to be back next year for sure. Lets aim for that 60km goal, sounds pretty logic.
SvaraRaderaYou are a true Legend now!
Thanks guys, back home again, happy but tired !
SvaraRaderaPics to be released soon....
There are a lot more Ultras to be done for all of us. This year Skövde has 156 starters and it will for sure grow from year to year. You all know how it looks like in Scandinavia, allmost no long distance events at all before April....
L./.
Congratulations Mr. L! You are the man!
SvaraRaderaThanks Mr USC !
SvaraRaderaThis year I believe it's more a benifit of not doing stupid misstakes with clothing, food and tactical dispotions :-) I understand that you must have busy but hopefully happy days right now. During Tobias first 5years I was totally exhausted every day, without running a meter :-)