Road to Göteborgsvarvet - part I

I really don't know what made me pay 650 SEK (70€) to torture myself next spring, maybe the love that i feel for Sweden and the excitement that i get from the fact that I can run! So it'll be very special for me to be part of that huge event and hopefully i will be able to cross the finish line as well.  I think it's actually the biggest half marathon event in the world, hmm need to double check that..

I started running about 5 years ago when i was still living in Brussels; i was over the moon when I noticed that i am able to run! And about six months later i enrolled to my first running event; a ten km ladies run in Helsinki, which i finished in abt 1h 20 min, if i recall correctly. That particular run is not timed so no record to look back.Since then i haven't stopped running, or in my case you actually should say jogging, but running sounds so much cooler.

Now as part of my training, i have decided to challenge myself not to have any "rest-days" from training for 365 days. Have to point out that it doesn't matter if one day's training is just a set of sit-ups or burbees, as long as i do something. When i am in Belgium i bike to work every weekday, which means around 80 min of biking per day; in addition some days I add an excercise class or gym training on top of that. While in Finland it is more difficult as on top of my working days i sit in a car for two hours commuting, so quite often i end up just going for a short jog, but all excercise is good excercise IMO.


(Just to clarify i work around 1 - 1.5 weeks per month in Finland, otherwise i live in Belgium.)




Below my start of the "challenge 365":

29/10 Tuesday: biking 2x13k
30/9 Wednesday: biking 2x13k
1/10 Thursday: jogging 4km
2/10 Friday: 6 x 426 step stairs
3/10 Saturday: hot yin yoga
4/10 Sunday: 8k trail running
5/10 Monday: 5k jogging  (1k real running)
6/10 Tuesday: 4.5k jogging
7/10 Wednesday: quick home training: 30 situps, 20 burbees, 30 squads, 30 lunges (each leg) & 1min plank
8/10 Thursday: 30 situps  (one could call this a rest day ;) )
9/10 Friday: biking 13 +14 k
10/10 Saturday: jogging 8k
11/10 Sunday: ubound (a tramboline group lesson -> a killer)


So 13/365 completed!!