Jari Hemmilä
Time to rest
But just for a while. During the Christmas Week one has a chance to rest for a while. During my own active years as a competitive runner (1973-87) I usually took off from training for a few days. Normally I had no injuries, but because of a long wintertime, it was just a normal way to behave for most of the runners.
I have coached more or less from the 1994, and during all that time I have approached trainingprograms with this same attitude. When runner is training as should then there he can ease off.
Another reason to take off was because our basic conditioning season lasted between 1.10. and 31.3. It was 26 weeks, and the end of December marked just about the half way mark. And because of the resti it was somehow easier to keep on training as before.
I been running just about from 1973. Between the years of 1988-91 my running had no philosophy, I just ran on and off. Again I started to run somewhere around -92, but I´m not sure whether I have kept the faith when it comes to keeping off from the training during Christmas. At the moment is is very cold in Finland, but without it, I propably would go tomorrow morning to do my normal 14 kilometres. I´ll see it in a few hours.
One more thing, this 14 k´s just is 14 because the route is like that. Some mornings I do 12 k´s and sometimes even 18-20. The distance is not case anymore; it´s not about measure, it´s about who I am and what I want do as I runner.
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New York City Marathon
So I ran New York. The weeks before the marathon were not as good as I hoped them to be, but all together my training during the October was quite ok. I think the biggest obstacle was my workload, as I have mentioned before. I´m working, and with a good set of mind, four works at the same time, and sometimes it just gets too busy. When it comes to running it means that I haven´t train every day.
I´m going to write more about New York City Marathon, but in this writing there is a video from Central Park, where I had a chance to run after the race. The most wonderful thing at Central Park was to see all those runners no matters which was the visiting hour over there. The voiceover is Finnish, but the feeling is international.
Some more about the race: my time was 2.52. Ok.
I´m still alive
I know. I should do better work with my blog. But the thing is that I have three different jobs, so sometimes it is hard to find time just to write the blog. I should also take much better care about the articles. So in a near future I´m hoping to write one article to each section.
Why I´m having three works is another story. From 2005 to 2007 I was the editor of chief of Juoksu&Hiihto- lehti. The magazine was doing well, but there was not enough ads. So just about three years ago the publisher surprised my by ending the magazine just like that without prior warnings.
I was unemployd for a while, and I started to send applications to find a new job. I also became a member in a working community, and that is the way I´m working today. I need to find my jobs now one byt one. Every week I´m writing for the newspaper 3-4 days, selling another newspaper 2 days, then I train marathoners and sometime I write articles to two magazine. Also I´m studying and running around 100 kilometers every week. So that is my life. I didn´t order it like that, but with these cards I must play.
But lets concentrate to my workouts for a two past weeks.
16.8. weighttraining and water running only 20 minutes - normally I don´t run on monday because of sundays long run.
17.8.Rest still because of sundays workout, which was 30 kilometres toa time 2.08.
18.8. Easy 15 kilometres
19.8. This morning I did´t train because got to bead last night around 11 pm. I do all my training around 6 am, but sometimes I just can´t get myself out of bed.
20.8. 17 kilometres to 67 minutes. Good workout. At the latter part my speedwas around 3.40/km
21.8. 18 kilometres at Helsinki like yesterday. good workout again.
22.8. 32 kilometers. First 20 k`s around 4.25-30/km and then 10 k´s around 4.05-10. During the last 2 k´s I was a bit tired because lack of energy.
23.8. Rest
24.8. 17 kilometres like 20.8.
25.8. 18 k´s. Steady state run 30 minutes, the speed was between 3.35-40. Felt ok.
26.8. 16 k´s easier. Afternoon weights and water running
27.8. Rest
28.8. 18 k´s like 21.8. The speed at the latter partwas around 3.45-50. Very easy
29.8. Today-quite soon starting the long run of 35 kilometers.
My next race is the New York City Marathon, and over there I´m heading to 2.40. The next few weeks are very important in order to reach my goal.
Have a good workouts you all.
Helsinki City Marathon is on today
There are two big Marathons that the major part of the runners are running each year. First one is Stockholm on early june, and then there is Helsinki City Marathon Some days back I was talking to a runner and he said that training for HCM during the summertime is bit hard because of all the summerhobbies such as traveling, dining, seeing relatives etc. I haven´t thought of it like that, but it might be true. Stockholm might have some advantage because it starts the season.
At the moment it is raining in Helsinki but later on the weather is getting warmer that is around 25 degrees. So runners should drink a lot and remember not to start too fast.
My own training had a setback last week. On tuesday I ran threshold-training, which went ok. After the workout I might have streched my Achilles-tendons too much because they were in pain for a few days after tuesday. Last week I took two days off and during this week I have ran twice 15 and and one 17 kilometres. Today I´m not training, but tomorrow again.
I´m taking some videos and photos from the Helsinki City Marathon, so more on that later.
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