RtNP#07 Summer sum up

I'm back again. Please forgive my absence. I'll try to pull myself together and get back to podcasting more often again.

In this episode ..
..you can hear me explain why I was gone so long and you can also share some of my memories from the summer.


The Music ..

.. is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network, at http://www.music.podshow.com/
In this episode you can hear:

• Glow Stars - Back Again
• Minnikin - Back Again (excerpts)
• Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way (intro, outro)

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I'm still here

Hello!

Just a short blogpost to let you know that I'm still here.
Due to a too busy schedule during the summer, I have not been able to blog or podcast for a while. Even my running have suffered and I don't understand how I shall get myself ready for the ½ marathon I signed up for at the festival of races. I might have to do the 10k instead.

Hopefully the daily routines will get back to normal again after the holidays but for the near future it seems to be a bit too much on the workfront, with working quite a few late evenings for at least the next couple of weeks to come.

That's bad for getting time for running, I'll see if I can get a few lunchtime runs in. I've tried that before and I think I can fit in a 5k run on my lunchbreak every now and then. It just takes a bit of planning the day before to pack my running shoes and things.

Anyway, I hope that your training is going better than mine and I hope to be talking to you soon through my podcast, I really miss that.

talk to you later

Krister

RtNP#06 Home alone

I was out on a slow easy 7 km run the other day, that turned out to be not so slow after all. I ran about the same speed as I usually do. Anyway I brought my recorder, unfortunately it was quite a windy day so, sorry about the windnoise.


In this episode ..
..you can hear me talk about the weekly goals I have set for myself. I'm also talking about important things in life and whining about beeing apart from my family.


Links..
..to things mentioned:

• Running From The Reaper Podcast
• Greece

The Music ..
.. is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network, at music.podshow.com
In this episode you can hear:

• Yael Naim - New Soul
• Eric Johnson - My Back Pages
• Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way (intro, outro)

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RtNP#05 Track, map and log

Finally, I have created a new episode. I'm glad to be back again, hopefully summer will bring me more time for podcasting. I hope you will enjoy my company when listening to this.


In this episode ..
..you can hear me talk about my tracks and how I measure the distance, I talk about my training log and what I have found there. You can also hear an audio P.S. to our children.

Links..
.. to things mentioned:

• Map my run
• Buckeye outdoor
• John

The Music ..
.. is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network, at http://www.music.podshow.com/
In this episode you can hear:

• Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day
• Michael Mucklow - It Feels Timeless
• Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way (intro, outro)

See photos from my Oaktree-yellow house loop here.


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Oaktree-yellowhouse 10k loop

I brought my camera when running one of my favourite loops some days ago. I thought the track was around 10 kms and when measuring it with the "map my run" tool I found it to be 10.5 km, so my guess about the distance was quite good.

As you can see from the photos the track contains many different surfaces. I'm not so fond of the tarmac part but I need to run that part too, to get back home again. Maybe I should run the loop in the opposite direction and do the nice forest paths for the last part of my run, because that is what I really enjoy.

The track is very flat, so no hilltrainig when running this loop. I have found a few other 10k loops on the map, that contains a few hills but I have not tried them yet. I guess I have to do that in order to get fit for a race that I might sign up for and that I know is quite steep uphill in some parts. Maybe I'll bring my camera when I try theese new loops in a future run and I can show you what they looks like.

My training has been quite good for the last couple of weeks but could be better. I'm struggling to get the time for running. It seems that the calendar fills up with more things to do than I really want. Hopefully it will get better in a couple of weeks.

Krister

See photos from my Oaktree-yellow house loop here.

RtNP#04 Race report

Finally I managed to record and upload a new episode, I'm sorry that it took me so long. I really enjoy producing this podcast but lately there just hasn't been enough time for it.


In this episode ..

..you can hear a race report from my first 10k race ever.


The music ..

.. is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network, at http://www.music.podshow.com/
In this episode you can hear:

• Firewind - Mercenary Man
• Bob Mould - The Silence Between Us
• Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way (intro, outro)

Contact me by e-mail (adress in link to the right) or post a comment below.
Subscription to this podcast can be made by using the links to the right.
Listen to this episode here.  (right click [save-as..] for download).

10k race

Yesterday I ran my first 10k race.

It was a beautiful warm and sunny evening and the track was nice. We ran two laps on parkways and streets in town.
I haven't been able to train as much as I had planned for this race because of a cold in the last weeks. But I'm very happy with my time - 1:02:18.
At the end of the race I thought about aiming for under one hour but I had to give that up and I did the last kms in my own pace. I really enjoyed it. I actually enjoyed the second lap more than the first.

There was about 100 runners participating and I finnished among the last ones but I'm really happy with what I accomplished and since this was my first 10k race I now have a PB wich I intend to beat next time.

I'll tell you more about the race in my next podcast episode wich I plan to post next weekend or so.

Krister