Gave up after 35 km...

I was very disappointed after a horrible run last sunday. I managed to run 35 km in 3:06:54 @5:19/km... I think I have to blame myself for the dismal performance. The weather was horrible, it was windy, rainy and down right depressing when I looked out the window when I woke up around 7am. I was quite surprised with the games my mind was playing I have never been intimated by the weather before and I have run in much harsher weather so I don´t know what the issue was. I guess mentally I am getting tired of training, I need to start running with a group to keep up the training regime.

To get down to the specifics, almost 8 km I was running against the wind, which felt horrible and I just could not push myself to keep up a good pace. It felt like the wind was 10 to 15 m/sec, of course it feels horrible when your mind tells  you all that is wrong with the run. I am more motivated than I have ever been to get back into doing more speed work and tempo runs to improve my speed.

Wonderful weather - a Motivator to run

We have been very lucky with the weather is Iceland so far and that has inspired and motivated me to run more this week although my mileage does not show that :) I have done about 55 kms so far this month. The reason for the slack in the mileage is the fact that I have not done any really long runs that I was doing last month. The longest that I did was 37km, the plan was to do a 40km the following weekend but it never happened as I went on vacation to the summer house and then I decided to do a 18km with a buddy of mine so net net it has not contributed to my mileage.

No worries, I did 15km yesterday and will be doing 10 to 15 km today and that should add to my miles this month.