Today's beautiful, cloudless #sundayRunday in four pictures.

Amazing to follow @officehippy #trailrunning in the Northern Traverse 300k. Started at 0830 local time yesterday. Go Colin! (#73) https://live.opentracking.co.uk/northerntraverse2025/

Today's trailrun up to Prabé above Sion. The super steep ascent is rewarded with this view.

Schön kalt

It’s #spring in #California! Flowers are out, views are stunning, it’s just you and the hills and the wind…and some danger noodles.

This week, all the local trails are a mix of slush and mud, so I decided to do the most cliché of Duluth outdoor activities: run the Lakewalk. But, alas, there's a reason things become cliché – a lot of people like them.

It was a beautiful day and I also got some really, really rad drone footage.

#running #TrailRunning #Duluth #Minnesota #LakeSuperior #Lakewalk #VirtualRun

https://youtu.be/RQPwpLd5We8

Tomorrow will be my first race of this year’s season. I am nervous, I must say, but I am also getting very excited to do my longest trail race ever!
#running #runnersofmastodon #sport #trailrunning

8km tranquillou : les NNormal Kjerag 01, comme dirait NTM c’est d’la bombe baby! Oh ouiiiii! Des chaussons posés sur une paire de tongs j’ai pas voulu forcer mais j’ai fait plus que prévu : TOP #trailrunning #running #fleuristonfil #foret #nature #nnormal

Ce matin j’ai craqué et je suis passé à l’acte : j’ai acheté une nouvelle paire de chaussures de trail européennes (c’est vrai que ça réduit le choix, mais y’a plein de marques chez nous Salomon, Rossignol, Adidas, Raidlight, La Sportiva, Scrapa,Veeps, Cimalp, Nnormal et même NordaRun chez nos amis canadiens). J’ai opté pour le modèle Nnormal Kjerag 01. Première session dans quelques minutes #nnormal #trailrunning #sport #nature #foret #printemps

Sometimes the #training doesn't go as planned. Last weekend as part of my #fitness class trainer training we did a #cardio lab which included a 15minute #run at speaking pace. Me being a non-runnner was astonished that it was relatively effortlessly. Boosted by that I went for a run-walk today, run until done then walk the rest. And the walk part went down the drain as it just became an 11km trailrun in great spring weather.

So I guess I did that...

Home, sweet, home. I went to my stairs after 5 days in London and did 1/2 of the Niesen Treppenlauf in terms of steps and EG.

4.5km up and down plus 1km to/from the stairs for 5850 steps and 886m of EG (the 2.25km up correspond quite good to the first section and the cutoff point of the race - 2.1km/970m of EG).

30 times up and down in the lovely sun.

Missed out on a run yesterday so made it up with a double album run today. Started off with the joyful Stakka Bo - Supermarket, lyrics are still apt today as it was back in '93. This helped me through the forest and the sandy tracks to the beach. Where Rage Against the Machine as always kicked butt, serious air drums and screaming along to Killing in the name, Bombtrack and Bullet in the Head etc was only heard by the wind and the waves as I did nearly 3.5km all alone on the beach.

April showers and birdsongs somewhere in the woods.

Have a good day.

You won’t be saying “recovery” tomorrow Mr Garmin #ultramarathon #NorthernTraverse #trailrunning

❝Health is the key for aging runners. Training plans are good but secondary to being healthy overall. Eating and sleeping patterns are crucial; you have to be strong and healthy enough to do the training at all.
—Buzz Burrell
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahrunning/p/much-more-than-a-runner?r=1n6v12

*All* runners. I think sometimes we (at whatever age) *feel* strong and healthy enough to do the training, but then a couple years later—bam, injury.

I just finished reading Aurélien Sanchez's after race report on his Barkley Marathons finish in 2023.
What a great story! Well narrated, it brings the reader completely in the Barkley's atmosphere. (Or what I could imagine it is, as I have never experienced this first hand).

Highly recommended!