The almost complete lack of träningsvärk from running on Saturday made me realize some changes were needed. First, backwards running. I don't mean actually running backwards but rather that I took my normal route in the reverse direction. Today was warmer, more humid and my muscles did have the faint sign of pain plus blisters on my feet but other than that it felt very much the same.

The advantage of starting with the Puketorp hill is that it gets those annoying road 1.5km out of the way first plus it could very well be used to induce some vomit feeling directly at the start. Training that would help my useless CX starts. The blue trail is the same in either direction but Bohusleden had steeper uphills in this direction. I had taken an extra part on the green/white trail but it got to the point where I was just in a groove without too much breathing and in that state I can continue forever. I ended up being out for 100 minutes since I added an extra lap of the running trail to make sure I was stiff this time. Each attack of the rolling hills left me more and more out of breath and then things were becoming effective.

So I think what I will do is continue in this backwards direction but shorten it to somewhere between 45-60 minutes, the length of a CX race. Next run I will time the route and that will mean PB. =) And hopefully I will continue to improve this over the month.