2024 Training Log Q1

Tonight at Lauftreff we did hill sprints. It was a good run, but I was fighting my stomach at the end.

Completed the half marathon today in 2:13:09 here in Mostar. I hydrated well before the race, drinking about 2 liters, so the heat and the sunshine wasn't too much of a factor. However my shins really hurt for the first few kilometers and I don't know why. It was a beautiful run along the Neretva river!

Our last day watching Champ, so I hiked up to the Täuferhöhle and back in the sunshine with the 3 dogs

Did 13 km with the CityRunning group and then some of us did a few more on the way back to the Hauptbahnhof. I felt absolutely wiped out afterwards.

Tonight I got out the bat and hit baseballs for the first time in almost a year. It felt really good. And then my back felt baaaaad. I'm not 41 anymore 🤣

Day 2 of week 4 of dumbell training. And I have grown tired of the stupid pixel watch. It is uncomfortable and only provides one useful number - the total distance I've walked & run during the week. I will give up on walked distance and focus just on tracking run distance.

Lauftreff!

Completed day 3 of week 3 of my dumbell training schedule.

Ran with just the watch, which didn't manage to record the whole run once again.

Completed day 2 of week 3 of my dumbell training schedule. Since we're now in week 5 of the year I'm disappointed with myself, but I did manage to hit my 25km running goal for last week.

Began week 3 of dumbell training.

Not much training this past week beyond carrying wood and luggage and walking through the snow. This will have to be week three of my dumbell training, although there's a lot of snow on the ground here now too so I don't know how much running I'll get in.

Finished week 2 of my dumbell workout, but next week in Bergen I will not have them...

Passing the 10 km marker on the first lap in today's Dietiker Neujahrslauf I realized that it had a double meaning: 10 km left to go for me on this first lap and then 10 km behind me on the second. I wonder if that's how they chose the distance for this race. I meant to take a picture of this double-meaning sign on the second lap, but my phone died just beforehand since it was cold and I was trying to use it for Strava in lieu of my oft-dying watch. It seems in this regard I just can't win. Nevertheless, I ran the race in 1:18:58, which was just faster than a 6 min/km pace and made me pleased.

Today Anita & I hiked up Hörnli with our three dogs to get above the fog into the sunshine. And in the evening I completed day 2 of this week's dumbell workout.

Pain in my left Achilles heel has limitied training again this week, but although I haven't been able to run I completed week one of my dumbell training program Friday. Hiking up in the hills above Heidelberg today I recorded with my phone instead of my watch...

My Pixel watch decided to restart again midway through my run. I think the moral of the story is that I should have done my research better and bought a Garmin.