Author: Marius

together with Frank by the Sogsvann lake.

I did a series of longer intervalls at competition speed. It is hard to compare to sea level, but I can feel my strength is coming back in my legs. I can float now, and glide through the stride. That is a change, so things are moving the right direction for every day 🙂

We watched the Stockholm Grand Prix meeting on Tuesday with the family of my former coach Per Halle. I could feel myself getting tense and nervous just by watching the 5000 meter race. I look forward to running with those guys again. There is no better feeling then running fast races in front of a great crowd. It makes all the hard work worthwhile…

A rest day yesterday with sightseeing in Italy. We are only 30 minutes from the border and took the trip in between sessions.

All well from down here !!

Marius

spent the afternoon planning things ahead, while enjoying the relaxing time up there.

Then, of course, we woke up this morning to rain and wind. Unusual down here… and of course we had planned a track session to test out the achilles and get some track mileage done. At the end of the session, it was Frank, myself and a Polish 800 meter runner within miles distance 🙂 It was raining, raining and the wind was blowing hard from all angles. I got through the whole session but looked like the storm I had been running in when I had finished.

More good athletes are here now. Dieter Baumann has arrived, Lydia Chlojeka (sub 4 min 1500 m), Pawel Czapiewski (1.43 800), Damian Kallabis (8.09 steeple), Stephen Cherono (7.58 steeple). So new faces every day around the track down here.

All is well. Trying to build, build and build 🙂

Marius

with his daughter Gunhild (15.09/5000 m) so he came with Frank to watch my workout. Is was a long aerobic run, right below the lactate treshold split into intervalls. I was feeling fine, and it is a great beginning to the buildup I will need down here in order to get ready for the European Champs in August.

The atmosphere down here is like I remember it from last year ; quiet, beautiful and with long nice paths to run on. There are already some good athletes down here ; Wilson Boit Kipketer, Andre Bucher etc. Plus a group of Norwegians ; Gunhild Halle, Ketil Hodnekvam (1.47/800m), Kjersti Plätzer (2ndOGWalking). So you get an athletic feel for things, right in the middle of the quiet Alps. A good combination 🙂

All well from here,

Marius

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since late May I am 100 % injury free and I have had a week of normal training. It feels great to be able to do what you have planned again. But time is short before the European Championships the 9th (prelims) and 11th (finals) of August, so it will be a real race against the clock. I like challenges, but usually with a bit more time on my hand 🙂 The main plan is to use altitude training to keep the endurance going, while at the same time finally get into normal training at competition speeds. In that way I will get both factors important to race fast in the 5000 meters. To do that, however, I need to be 100 % injury free for each and every single day before the Championships. All fingers crossed 🙂

I have received many encouraging emails lately. Thank you for all of them. It is great to see that people give support both when things are going well and when you have trouble. That means alot and I won`t forget you once I start moving for real again.

All well from Oslo,

Marius

track work.

We have started the planning of the rest of the season. I will leave for St.Moritz, Switzerlandthe 8th of July and stay there for altitude training. It is the same place I stayed last year before my Norwegian record in the 5000 meters. There are several benefits with St.Moritz : I have exact times/lactate values to compare with from bfore, the travel is short and climate nice. It is also at such an altitude that I can do the fast track work I have been missing. If I had stayed injuryfree I could have gone back to Bolivia, but because of the circumstances St.Moritz is probably a better pick.

Marius

injury I have struggled the last weeks, on the achilles and lower calf muscle. So I tried to use the last week before the race to do everything I could to get well. Total rest (mental and physical) to preserve as much energy as possible into the recovery. And I did manage to speed up the recovery and be without pain on the day of the race, but the preparations had not been good enough. Not even close to enough race pace training and too many spoiled sessions.

The main reason why I did run, was that Bislett Games is special to me. I have watched the meet live since I was a little kid and run great races there before. So even though I knew the preparations were not ideal I decided to run if I was injury free on race day. And I was. Sometimes it is important to go out there even though you are not 100 %.

The plans from now on is to pick up training again and get back leg strength and race stride. The endurance base is excellent, but I need a few more weeks to really benefit from it. Right now I have no float and I am unable to get a “free ride” through most of the race. When that comes, I will be ready again.

Finally an update. Sorry for the lack of it recently but I hope for your understanding 🙂

Marius

yet, that has been saved for the European Championships in August. But a small injury has caused me some trouble that has been unexpected and given me problem with running track workouts as I would have liked. So I am a bit behind schedule but as always more then ready to catch up.

Now some easy days to recover. Splits for the race 67.5-63.4-57.1-43.5 for 3.51 6th in the race.

Briefly from Oslo,

Marius

and in the beginning of this week. I have really good experience with some 4-5 days of easy training to bring out the sharpness you need for competitions. Today I could feel the benefit of this, with fresh legs in both training sessions. It has been a really hard training winter and I need those nice days where you feel smooth now 🙂

Really not much new. Just tuning in to the season. I know I will be extremely ready before the European Champs. Now it is time to see how ready I am early in the season.

All well,

Marius

and in the beginning of this week. I have really good experience with some 4-5 days of easy training to bring out the sharpness you need for competitions. Today I could feel the benefit of this, with fresh legs in both training sessions. It has been a really hard training winter and I need those nice days where you feel smooth now 🙂

Really not much new. Just tuning in to the season. I know I will be extremely ready before the European Champs. Now it is time to see how ready I am early in the season.

All well,

Marius