Tag: run

4th time lucky! In many ways, that’s just what we were, when we for the forth time the managed to start and run the race – Silva, Great Lakeland 3day “GL3D”.  Check the movie!! of our running adventure in Lake District It all started close to 3 years ago, during the autumn of 2019, when…
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I had been wanting to run the complete Billingeleden for some time, but the timing had never been great. Therefore, in a grey and dark winter evening I decided to invite some friends for an event to experience the loop with me, during a time when Billingen really show its colors. In May. During May,…
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That’s a question I ask my self often, and I believe its a common question for many runners aspiring to run their first 100 milers. But what’s so special with 100 miles? I guess everyone have their own opinion on that as well and how you prepare for it. I also believe that how you…
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Below, I’ll explain 3 exercises I currently do every morning to recover from runners knee. The same blog post about runners knee in Swedish. This wasn’t how I had planned the spring. But it seems my runners knee is back. I never really did any exercises to prevent it to come back. But I didn’t…
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Oh no. It happened again. I didn’t think I would, but I got a runners knee again. A few years ago I got a runners knee. This after the usual scenario, my distances and speed had relatively quickly increased and I ran more and more. For months I tried to recover and re-hab. I frequently…
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Or could it be the lack of rest days… Probably the latter, but it feels better to blame it on the intervals, putting the blame on something else than me… 😉 During the interval session last week, I felt that my calfs was tired. Despite that I pushed through mixed terrain with speed and lots…
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We wanted a day out in the sun… and Helena had never been running in Hellas. So, what better way than to combine it. While enjoying snow covered trails for 20K we got a good few hours out in the sun. Hellas is a beautiful area south of Stockholm. This day we ran the green…
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Morning runs normally are magical, but some morning runs a more magical than others. Like this one.  5.30am I took the car and headed to Väsjöbacken like many mornings before. During the last couple of weeks it has been snowing a good amount and it has remained as it continuously been around -5. Therefore, the…
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This week I thought it would be easy to reach my weekly running goal. I really would like to run further and get more miles in every week to be able to be safely run 100 miles one day. Therefore; I would like to get at least 70K in per week, but ultimately later get…
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Winter in Stockholm… It’s snowy a few days or a week, then ice, slush and then snow again. Wish we could have proper snow for a few weeks as I would like to start doing cross country skiing. Oh, well. At least I have my running – and new Altra running shoes 😉 This week…
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