The great "climate effect" has struck Sweden. It was above 30ºC today and the sun is shining all day long. No great time for running though, yesterday Stockholm had the same temperature and I followed the marathon on TV. I sent my thoughts to my colleague, who is an experienced marathon runner. I decided to join the brave runner's on TV so I went out for my usual 10 km. It was horrible! The heat is something I'm not very well aquainted with during heavy physical exercise. How do you prepare? (in Sweden) I was thinking of my training runs back in Januar - icy rain at 0ºC...
Nevertheless, I paid the fee to my next half marathon, S:t Eriksloppet (http://www.steriksloppet.se/start/) in Stockholm the 1st of September. I have to get some kind of feeling of how the streets in Stockholm will fit my running style. And if it turns out that they do, then maybe, depending on training dose and my health, I might take into consideration to pay another fee to Stockholm next year...
I have to congratulate Jonathan (blog link to the right) for completing his first marathon! Unfortunately, he will also quit his blog. I enjoyed reading it and I hope that we both can inspire other people to start running, setting new goals, no matter what kind of pain or damage they experience. As you may have understood from above - he inspires me!
