Weekly Wrap. Week 37 Into the marathon and out of the marathon. This would sum up what happened during the last weekend and into this week. As mentioned previously, I was planning to run the Vilnius Marathon. Nevermind the illness, which tended to linger together with me - I felt as I overcame it and …
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Weekly Wrap. Week 36 What a peculiar week to have behind myself. Today I will be racing in a very special event for myself - Vilnius Marathon. This event has lead me through so many different phases of my life - from a smoking student, who was very proud to have run 5 kilometers, through 10k …
Continue reading Ironman Copenhagen 2017 part 3: Gone with the Wind
Weekly Wrap. Week 35 This week I have been going back to Ironman Copenhagen. I am still reflecting on it, still trying to understand it, understand what happened here. The title of this entry should give you a hint that it did not go as planned and I had troubles with it. However, understanding those …
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Weekly Wrap. Week 34 This week was all focused on collecting myself, my thoughts, my stuff at the appartment we were renting and going back home. After week and a half in Denmark, it was finally the time to come back to Vilnius. And after nearly two months of twice-a-day trainings, it is time to …
Weekly Wrap. Week 33 To mix things up, I will start it off with a bottomline - I should have had a better idea, how to structure tapering weeks and the ones, which will lead me to the race. I had been smashed and up again during this week, sometimes not wanting to do a …
Weekly wrap. Week 32 Just like a child, opening a Kinder Surprise, I received something I have not planned for, nor anticipated, when I opened my tapering week. To my surprise, I was a person, who was throwing a boomerang for the first time in my life - what usually happens, it hits you in …
Weekly Wrap. Week 30 20 hours. 20 hours which included waking up at ungodly hours, at questionable mornings, being outside on the hottest sun Vilnius has had this year, exposed to the wind. 20 hours which could have been spent elsewhere - or could they? I am now within my tapering week - week, where I …
Weekly Wrap I did not plan today well. I am sitting right now way past the planned time for my blog writing, after 4,5 km swim and a 1:10 hrs interval running session on the track. I shoved down a huge chunk of buckwheat and more chicken than I should have. Of course, one of …
Continue reading Digging through my muscles, looking for a clue
Weekly Wrap Recently I compiled my training plan and actually so far I am managing to commit to it and it looks quite well. I am on track and progressing, sessions are going well and I am able to recover. Of course, from time to time I have to adapt to happenings around me - f.e. last …
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