Greetings, today was a rainy day in Bremen, but it was so warm after all that the high humidity didn’t make the thought of running too depressive, so off I went. The training plan suggested I should do a progression run and I chose the pretty standard route, if I…
Easy run on Saturday
Good night, the day’s been a busy one. In addition to all the activities within the family I also managed to go for an easy run in the evening. I chose to run on the route of Vahrer-Seen-Lauf in order to keep up the motivation. In a week I’ll see,…
3×2 miles @Interval pace and 5 min recovery + wu/cd
Hi there, The service break is over and everything is getting back to the old state gradually. There still are some services I have to restore, but at least the blog is up and running and I can submit new postings. Tonight I wasn’t sure whether I could cope with…
Maintenance break
If everything goes as planned, there will a maintenance break tomorrow and therefore my server (and this blog) will be inaccessible. I’m moving to a new server technology, as OpenVZ based virtualization does not fulfill all my needs. Due to this I have to reinstall the whole server and restore everything…
Runs of past few days
Greetings, The time goes by when you are having a good time, they say. I’m not entirely about sure whether I’ve had a real good time lately, but surely I have noticed how quickly the weeks go when you have a lot of to do. I have tried to gradually…
Patience required
Hi there, Once again a hasty update before the good night’s sleep. I started this week with a couple of easy runs, as I have felt really tired and not prepared to do any tempo or interval training. Well, sometimes it has to happen so the long weekend (thank God)…
Haspa Marathon Hamburg
Haspa Hamburg Marathon is one of my favourite running events due to its flat route, great atmosphere and successful organisation. For me Hamburg is a convenient place to start, as it only takes roughly a bit over an hour to travel from Bremen to Hamburg by train. I prefer travelling with the…
Workouts from the end of the last week
Hi, It seems I’m struggling with my blog writing nowadays, and it really seems hard to find time for the writing, but let’s see; I wouldn’t like to stop writing entirely as I have the feeling it would have a negative impact on my overall writing skills etc. The past…
Tempo run
Distance: 6,95 km Duration: 31m:05s Average pace: 04:28 min/km Max pace: 03:20 min/km Average heart rate: 152 Max heart rate: 177 Tonight the training program suggested I should do a tempo run. Without this kind of trainings it’s hard to develop so I tried to force myself to do a…
Progression run
Distance: 15,21 km Duration: 1h:21m:31s Average pace: 05:22 min/km Average heart rate: 143 Hi there, today’s workout was about running a steady longish run with the last miles with a higher pace, i.e. progression run with the target to start slow and finish fast. I have had this kind of…
Gradually getting back to the training modus
Hi, This week I have started to feel quite OK, but I have wanted to start carefully with the training in order not to jeopardize the recovery and the upcoming races. On Thursday I ran approximately 9 k with a couple of intervals. When going at a rapid pace I…