Quitters’ Day

We are now five days past Quitters’ Day and the gym is already significantly less crowded. After teaching methodology for three hours, I felt that I needed a break so I took the bike down to USM for 5k of indoor rowing, 5k of running and some strength training which made me feel like I had been hit by a steam locomotive.

Yesterday, I signed up for Urskogsloppet which is a 19 km trail race through old-growth forests about two hours south of Umeå. The race is on 13 June which is excellent as it means that I will not be able to run Ecotrail Stockholm which, at 80 km, would probably have been a bridge too far given where I am in terms of my general fitness level.