Evening Walk

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Together with Ken. New FKT time 00:15:06:57. Previous FKT at 15h 50 min. Race report approved and published. Style: self-supported. 


Preparations:

We decide to have 5 places to refuel water and energy. That gave us 6 different legs from 17-22 km. Ken picked me up at midnight and we went backward to our decided drop-off locations. The plan was to start at 3.00 and that it should be possible to do that without headlamps.
 

Upplandsleden from Östfora to Härjarö:

We started at 2.58 and it was not cold but I remember that I was freezing for the first 10 minutes. We knew that it would be a long warm day, so no idea to go for more than a light t-shirt and shorts. The start was awful with high grass and neetles that stung us. We ran around the Siggefora lake since the route was rerouted since the last FKT. Considering the camping at the start we did not expect the route to be used so rarely. After 1.8 km we understood why - most people follow the road and skip to go by the lake.

Nice single tracks combined with dirt roads followed after that, and also some asphalt roads. Once in a while some small lakes made the scenery amazing. Not at least when the sun started to get over the trees. So beautiful! 

It was one of the warmest days in Sweden this year so the decision to have 5 places with water was a good  call. We had planned to run with 8 min/km moving time plus 5 minutes at the 5 food/water locations and we followed the plan quite well. As most we were 21 minutes ahead of our plan but we ended up 8 minutes before the plan at 18:05 in Härjarö.

I have never run that far before. This is however not my length record since that is 115 km from my attempt to do Bruksleden 100 Miler, but there I started to more or less only walk from 70 km. Today we followed the plan to the end.

It was a great run, not as rough as Bruksleden. Of course it would have been good if it had been a bit colder but the weather is as it is. When we towards the end got some wind close to the Mälaren that felt really good.


Reflections after the race

* We managed to successfully follow our plan including to not go too fast in the first half of the run. Of course we walk up-hill.

* The time for the FKT should be 00:15:06:57 (shown by the Ken's GPX file). I had a screen lock so it took me a few more seconds to unlock. Therefore my time shows 00:15:07:02.

* There is a possible rerouting of the route close to Veckholm. The map from Upplandsleden (found as the app Naturkartan) still shows the same way as last FKT so we took that, despite the orange signs showing another way. For those of you who will go for this route, consider following the orange signs here. We did lose time and high grass with neetles that stung us again.

* A fantastic Midsummer eve, being outdoors together with a friend, running away from cows (it did happen) and with a short late night swim together with Birgitta after she picked us up. Thanks for doing that Birgitta!


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Jakob Källstrand

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