The schedule of the last week has been quite tough. Especially if I think that the left knee is still recovering from an injury and rule #0 says "watch out! don't push too hard".
Some running sessions of 15 km for three consecutive days, some drills and intervals did a great job to exhaust my legs before the long distance session.
As expected my legs today were not exactly responsive. But that was the training indeed: running on numb legs.
The course was not extremely difficult, but a bit technical in the beginning with about 400 mt of elevation gain mainly distributed in the first part. The second part was indeed quite boring due to the road, straight and clear. With cars...
I am still not an expert of Finnish roads and I will probably never be. Definitely not in one more week, the duration of my staying.
One important fact that I should consider in my next training sessions regards the fact that I lose too many salts, finding quite disgusting white spots on the hydration pack and shirt that becomes sand when dry. Today I drunk the whole 2 liters provided by the pack, ate 1 gel and 2 bars on the total distance of 40 km.
The real story goes like this.
At km 39.5 I sucked the straw harder than usual and nothing was coming up.
"Damn it broke!" I thought.
Nothing more wrong than that, Frankie.
I just had drunk it all. No water. Nada. Niente.
This fact is curious and I will need to fix it with Caroline, because the pace and the weather gave me no reason to drink like a camel.
Anyway, as the first long distance session after a period of active recovery, I can consider myself satisfied. Tomorrow, I will check how legs respond to some short drills on the track&field.
Greets from Finland.
Run happy!
