because it suits me

After I ran the HCR 09 I went to the swimming pool where I was able to have a shower and sauna. When I was getting my clothes from my bag I found this book as a present for finishing my first half marathon. A wonderful surprise which became my first reading on running. Highly recommend!

"When I tell people I run every day, some are quiet impressed. "You really must have a strong will," they sometimes tell me. Of course, it's nice to be praised like this. A lot better than being disparaged, that's for sure. But I don't think it's merely willpower that makes you able to do something. The world isn't that simple. To tell the truth, I don't even think there's that much correlation between my running every day and whether or not I have a strong will. I think I've been able to run for more than twelve years for a simple reason: It suits me. Or at least because I don't find it all that painful." Haruki Murakami.

Aussie Football

No much running this week for two main reason: work deadlines and muscle contracture (cramp) on my back. Nonetheless, I have a project -work again- with the Helsinki Australian Football team and went to meet them on their Sunday training, so played for the first time.



I told them I am coming back again. It was real fun!

Have a good start of the week. I will try to run more often!

Run Jose Run'09 (or what I listen to when I run)

One important thing (at least for many of us) is what we listen to while we are running. Music helps us to focus on the running and take our minds to other places. I have even seen myself changing the pace with the music beat. I have crazy experience on running with music, but right now, I will share what I listen the most when I go on running. This playlist was created by Tero Tikkanen for me, thinking on Stockholm Half Marathon. That was September' 09 so I should be getting a new playlist soon. By the way, I have to put together my last training week and share it with you! Meanwhile, enjoy the music!!

(song – artist – album) Running time: 56.8minutes

1.Sick With It (feat Dellé aka Eased from Seeed) – Moderat - Moderat (Basic Version)   
2.Two Weeks (Fred Falke Radio Mix) - Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks   
3.Zodiac Rising - Dollskabeat - Zodiac Rising   
4.Cities Burning Down - Howling Bells - Radio Wars   
5.Rusty Nails - Moderat - Moderat (Basic Version)   
6. Clive And The Lyre - The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned
7.Velvet - The Big Pink - Velvet
8.Fate To Fatal - The Breeders - Fate To Fatal   
9.Widths and Heights (Magic Arm Remix) – Magic Arm - Make Lists, Do Something   
10.Feltham (The Borstal Beat) - Duke Dumont - The Dominion Dubs Ep   
11.The Future Will Come - The Juan MacLean - The Future Will Come   
12.Outlaw (Timo & Yngve mix) - Real Ones - Outlaw   
13.Elävä ihmisjumala - Risto - Sähköhäiriöön   
14.Bible Thumper - Solid Gold - Bodies of Water

You can listen to some of these songs on Spotify. I tried to create the same playlist but I haven't found all the artists or remixes on this list. Here you have 10 of these songs: Run Jose Run 2009

My longest run...

... of 2010! 

(so far)

Distance: 17.50km

Pace: 5.35min/km

Time: 1:37'59''

Calories: 1411

HeartRate: 159

Weather: sunny, -7°C

This is my satisfied face

and here is the reason:

(view from my house window)

Finally a real sunny day!!!

Un rayo de sol, uh oh oh,

me trajo tu amor, uh oh oh,

un rayo de sol, uh oh oh,

a mi corazón!

Training Log: week 8

...or the week I started to go to the gym again!

First of all, I would like to say sorry because I haven't spent the time to write an article about anything else but my weekly training. This blog was supposed to be about something else but my runs. I will have to fix that soon.

Regarding my training this week; last Monday, I pushed myself into the gym. The excuse was the bad weather, but I really needed to workout at the gym as I was doing before Christmas. Overall, I am very proud of all my workouts this week, but lets see the table first:

     *the weather does not really matter when training inside, right?
   ** this was a series session: 5x1200km + 1x2000km (pace: 5:00; 4:50; 4:45; 4:45; 4:50 and 5:00)

One thing I wanted to let you know is that the table is made out of the data taken from my Nike+ receiver and suunto t4c watch; meaning that distance, pace and time is taken from Nike+ and Calories and HR from the watch.  This is not important when I just go for a run, but sometimes it is more complicated than what is mentioned on the table. 

As an example, Tuesday and Sunday workouts; both at the gym. On Tuesday, I ran in a easy pace on the treadmill at 7% elevation for 2km which wasn't recorded on the Nike+. Today, I ran for 10km on the treadmill but I would pause the Nike+ receiver after every lap so it didn't record when recovering at easy pace. Other examples are Monday and Saturday when I went to the gym but didn't use the Nike+ on my a(na)erobic exercises (bike or cross trainer). My workouts at the gym looked like this:

Monday (1hour): 35min on cross trainer and 25min biceps and triceps
Tuesday (1h30m):  weight lifting for legs and back + treadmill
Saturday (1hour): 35min bike and 25min pectoral and abs
Sunday (1h30m): abs and treadmill

I was supposed to write an article about SaharaMarathon last week but I didn't, I also had in mind a post about winter runs but is not ready yet. Hopefully, you will be able to read something else than my training here. 

If you want to follow me on any of the Social Networks for runner, you can do it here:

http://my.nike.com/EFESOR
http://www.strands.com/EFESOR
http://www.runnerplus.com/people/efesor
you can also follow me on twitter, but it's not all about sports there, just find efesor!



I almost forgot it! Today, I registered to the Helsinki City Run (HCR), a half marathon that will take place on 8th May 2010.