After a difficult 4wk period, things are starting to go well. During last week, my running started to feel good and as a result I won Kaakon Rasti's race (photo above). The whole weekend-trip in Salpa-Jukola training terrains was splendid!
For some strange reason my right leg (buttocks and back thigh) was facing some big problems during the last month. I had quite a lot pain in rest, but was able to run the races. Those were not so nice to do, as the leg wasn't functioning properly. I got some massage, physiotheparist consultance etc. but nothing really worked before last week. On Monday I visited a man who "fixes failures" and he managed to "untwist the knots of my muscles". In the end he even "updated the hip's operating system". As I have visited many of them, and these guys seem to use rather interesting language...
Even if I had planned to rest for a while, I was in need for testing "the new operating system". After a short lottery event we choice a training event some 30km from our place. That turned out to be a jackpot - really nice terrain and course! The legs were feeling totally different than on previous trainings and races. I was really enjoying this one.
More hype was coming up as Terä travelled to Hamina for Salpa-Jukola training-camp. The terrains back there are nice - you can run pretty fast and still you face some tricky challenges all the time. The main aim was to do high class trainings and to do well on that regional event already mentioned. Already in the first training I was feeling comfortable with both running and technical activity. And of course the euphoria was all the time "too high", so in the end I was forced to do some mistakes as well. I'm sometimes enjoying too much...
My performance in the race on Saturday was as it should be: unhurried, light to execute and still fast even hard running. Only in one place I decided to push, in fact just before my only mistake. Then I got humble again, and the rest of the race was perfect again. Do I really have to try to change something, which is already working really well? I'm asking this, because I was leading the race with a big margin at that point and was only 3s behind the "optimum".
But summa summarum: the situation with leg is starting to get better and the mentally this week was relieving. More briefly, the man is back on track. Check out the latest updates in the diary!