Power Outage

We had a power outage of few seconds today when I was just doing my training session. Now I have tested how the program continues if the console is turned of in the middle of the session, and it worked better than I was afraid of. I had just ended my warm up when the outage came and I was just guided how to do the first drill of the actual workout. The program started from the beginning but I had to do only a short warm up of three drills instead of starting totally from the beginning of the long warm up I had already done once. I used totally one and a half hour to my exercise even if it should have been 45 minutes long. Luckily I wasn't exercising in any hurry.

The weather is still very warm but it was easier to do the long aerobic session when I hadn't run before the exercise. I'll run again tomorrow. Otherwise the life is now on summer break and every day we are finding out good activities for the kids to do outdoors now that it's finally warm there. So it's swimming pool, ice cream, biking, snacks, etc. going on all the time.

Sportterfly

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Running Exercise in 29 Degrees

Today I did the last hard running exercise before the quarter marathon, which is coming in 11 days. I ran 45 minutes with 140-160 heart rate and did few faster spurts. The most challenging thing was the weather, 29 Celsius degrees in the shadow, which was after all OK. I've been more careful with my eating and drinking before the running exercise lately so the stomach and the whole body deals with the weather better. I have also started to run all the exercises couple of hours after the lunch to run the same time as the running events start so it means running in the hottest time of the day.

Now on I do only 20-30 minutes running exercises and 60 minutes long run before the opening shot of Move Maraton.

Sportterfly

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Training Program

Training program for the next four weeks updated here.

Sportterfly

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Long Run of 105 Minutes

I did my long run again yesterday and it was the last proper one before the quarter marathon. I tried new way for long running, instead of just running with steady pace, I increased the pace in the end and ran with heart rate of 140-160 the last 30 minutes, and the last few minutes as fast as I could. At first it felt a bit crazy, because my legs were already sore after the first 75 minutes, but then after 15 minutes faster run I felt I got extra power and I could have continue the jogging more than 30 minutes. I easily ran my previous half marathon pace then. 

Nice to have some new things also to my long run trainings as I have ran many years and done the long runs always the same way. I found tips for this fast end long run here.

Sportterfly

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Fitness Test

Today, after 24 weeks, my Fitness Score was 55 and Athleticism Score was 34. The more detailed results, once again:

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Endurance 68 (earlier 77, 68, 53, 52, 42, 01)

Flexibility 55 (earlier 55, 36, 55, 55, 55, 27)

Strength 60 (earlier 38, 51, 51, 34, 21, 09)

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Balance 50 (earlier 69, 59, 50, 45, 36, 58)

Power 53 (earlier 63, 51, 54, 53, 24, 01)

Speed/Reaction/Agility 11 (earlier 05, 10, 9, 10, 37, 12)

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Have a nice weekend!

Sportterfly

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Stomach Problems Have Returned

In Wednesday, I ran my interval training at home because I didn't have time to run in Tuesday in Vuokatti. Or actually I ran quite a lot but only after my kids in Angry Birds Activity Park, and still we lost the middle child for few minutes. There was five of us in the car when we drove home so all's well that ends well. 

Anyway, I felt I was well-rested when I started the interval exercise, because I had ran only in Leppävirta but all the home trainings I had missed due to the travelling. Running itself felt okay but then my stomach problems returned and I had to rush home and end the running 10 minutes before I was planned. Then my stomach hurted the rest of the day and also yesterday I rest to have good fitness test result today and to make sure that my stomach has time to recover. Not so nice, that the stomach problems return just before I have to run the quarter marathon which I failed two years ago due to stomach cramps. BTW, it's only 15 days to the event!

I have to think about my eatings better and I have to do my running exercises now on in the afternoons to let my stomach get used to running after lunch and other meals than just breakfast. I just had my lunch and now I'll wait again couple of hours before my 30 minutes basic running and the fitness test. Hopefully this was the only time I have stomach cramps this summer!

Sportterfly

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10 Kilogrammes Weight Loss

It was hard, but now it's done. I just did my weigh-in this morning and finally the scale showed -10kgs result! I'm not going to celebrate any longer and I already decided to speed up a bit because I haven't been in schedule for weeks now. I have to think my eatings more and I have to break the 15kgs target in schedule. This means 5 kilogrammes in 6 weeks!

I'll return later with the fitness test results and latest news!

Sportterfly

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