6 weeks to increase distance

stats of the week: run 44 km, zwift cycled 50 km, gym 3 h

6 weeks to Tokyo and I increased my long run to just 19 km what is not too bad. My target is to complete 3 more long runs of more than 20 km. That should do. I want to avoid the risk to get injured. Better be slow and finish than fail to get to the start line. 

I finished another 10K race, this time it was flat and ended with a sufficient time of 51:42 min. But from now on I will concentrate on distance and not on speed. Next test will be a half marathon at training pace at Feb 12.

Born again

stats of the week: run 27 km, zwift cycled 44 km, gym 1.5 h
stats of the previous week: run 41 km, zwift cycled 33 km, gym 3 h

The new year's eve race turned out to be a hilly cross country run with lots of steep ups and downs and mud in places. So I had to get around with a rather disappointing time of almost 55 minutes for 10 K, not a day to remember.

The new year started extremely unpleasant as I had to face a cancer suspicion for 3 days until the further examination could luckily exclude any risk. I felt like born again after I already thought about the end of running and living for a while. Now it is urgent time to increase distances to get prepared for Tokyo. The dream goes on.

Photo: Running 16 K around Lake Phoenix at Dortmund, longest run since more than 2 months