The FH and AtlantsOil race

Sigrun and Erla went to the FH and AtlantsOil summer race last week and the goal was to just run and get the exercise.

The distance was 5k and the route was not hard so the race was very fast! Erla was like the wind and she ran her best run ever in 31:45 and Sigrun also got her personal best or 32:58 so they are extremely happy with the result

We got good pictures from the photographer at the race, but you can take a look at the pictures by clicking on the big one

The race was held for the 95th time and 459 people ran in it and it has never been so many! The route was down town Reykjavik and we ran around the Reykjavik pond and lot’s of people came to support the runners.

The winner ran on 15:31 and that is fantastic!

Sigrun’s goal was 34:00 but the official time came on the Internet and said 34:05. Sigrun’s GPS watch said 5.07k in 34:03 so she is a little disappointed because she also saw the time when she crossed the finish line and it was 33:59 rooooling to 34:00. But I guess she has to trust the official time

Here is the route

How cool is that!

Here you can see the plan

When we finished we were extremely happy with our self, but when we started the sprint practices two of the members couldn’t even finish three times up the hill. WOHO!!!!

Today we decided to register to our first summer run and it is next Thursday but that is the “First summer-day” in Iceland and we have NO WORK day So The Jogging Turtles are going for a 5k race after a week!

Sigrun is planning her 1/2 marathon training and after few days it will be ready but the training will start 19. april. 2010 and meanwhile she is trying to get Berglind to come with her to the 1/2 marathon in August

Now things are happening

Jogging Turtles first 10k race

The Jogging Turtles are going to run in these runs this summer.

There are lot’s of runs on scedule this summer so perhaps the JTurtles are going to run more.. but these are the once that are decided

I also added the days until the run will be

48 days to the Icelandair run. 06.May. 7K

87 days to the  Blóðbankarun (e. Bloodbank run). 13 of Juny. 2.5K

94 days to the Kvennahlaupið (e. Womansrun). 20 of Juny. 5-7K

97 days to the Miðnæturhlaupið (e. Midnight run). 23 of Juny. 5K

117 days to the Ármannsrun. 13 of July. 10K

143 days to the Vatnsmýrarrun. 08 of August. 5K

156 days to the 1/2 Maraþon. 21 of August. 21.1K

170 days to the í Brúarrun (e Bridge run). 04 of September. 5K

182 days to the Saucony run. 16 of September. 5K

192 days to the Hjartadagrun (e. Heart Association run). 26 of September. 5-10K

Standing in the snow

Stretching

Berglind swam 1.2 km and Sigrún 700m, but Erla just had fun and swam few meters

Here are pictures from the run

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The Jogging Turtles has gone to sprint practices with the Winter jacks every Wednesday this winter.
Last Saturday the WJacks met and talked about the coming months and there is a lot interesting practices coming up

We are going to practice inside four times and do some Yoga afterwards.
We are also going to swim in the sea *brrr* but before take a good running exercise and end in the hot tub.
There will be a two long run exercises where we will run for an hour so some of us are going 7 km, some 10 and some 10+ and because we have a Yoga teacher in the group she is going to take a goooood Yoga class for an hour.

I think this will be really good for the Jogging Turtles and when the summer comes, we are full of power!

Image by Marcos Chin

Have I told you this before ?

I just love the Newbie Chronicles on Runnersworld.com they are such a motivation.

These are the newest, enjoy

UNEXPECTED UPSIDES
A MILE IN HIS SHOES

Image by Marcos Chin - From RunnersWorld

I totally forgot about the Newbie Chronicles on Runnersworld!

They have published few more articles and here are the newest

Watch Your Step
Going “Long”
Dressed For Duress

“…Run, you pretty flower, you candy boy. Run, sparkle fruit, run! You mocha latte. Pick it up, pepperoni. Pick it up, double cheese. You glazed cashew. You chicken-fried ring-ding …”

We just came home from our sprint practice tonight and like always we had a lot of fun. The practices are getting more difficult every time, they are longer and more challenging every time, but that is the purpose so we are happy The cold is also slowing us down but tonight there were only 4 degrees Celsius *brr*

Tonight we ran:
1 km run to the practice
15 min warmup with the Winter jacks
3x Fartlet 0.08m
3x Walk back
3x 700 m run, slow to faster with a 2 minutes brake

Next Wednesday the Winter jacks are going for to swim in and sea and *brrr* that must be cold!