One week after the marathon all but some minor soreness in the ankles is gone. Legs feel good again and tried an accelerating first 5k today. There’s a 10k event in two weeks, but I wonder how crowded it will be with walking and zigzagging for the first 1-3k? Under 50 minutes on the 10k [...]

Been there, done that, have the medal, have the T-shirt! It was hot and it was humid. I also had a strange ache in both my knees and my ankles which towards the end made each step forward painful. I was doing OKish through 30km and a bit further, but after that the walks at [...]

This week the plan was to do the last 20+ km run before the Helsinki marathon, which is in three weeks on 14 Aug 2010. But since I was in the region and there was a race, I did the Jakob half-marathon instead. Results and info at http://jakob-marathon.net/ This is a small event with 4-500 [...]

3 min walk/jog btw. reps.

The plan was to run slower and longer, but all those hills in the first (and last) 7k which cause the HR-curve to jump up and down made me turn around at 10k.

On average this is 4-hour marathon pace, or 5:40/km, but accelerating towards the end – once the motor warms up it feels quite easy run at 5:30-5:20 pace, at least for 10k at a time… No long run (which now is defined as ~20k) last week then. Rest is good too…

5:51/km on average (best km was 5:25).