Amazing training

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.

 American Beauty

The weather is so good today that I decided that I am going to make the best of my stay in Poland and decided to drive for a training to Wielkopolski Park Narodowy and enjoy the sun and fresh air.

Quite spontaneously I've chosen quite and ambitious route along lakes - I expected that it will have about 8km. Everything went quite smoothly I even managed quite well to practice running with my back straight - I am not sure if it is not just my impression but I felt much better running like that.

Problems usually occur when one least expects them - suddenly I realized that for quite a while I did not see any trail marks. I ran for another 5 minutes or so but when I reached 30 min. from the starting point I decided that it's time to go back. Running back on the same route would mean that I'll run altogether 1h and I expected that if I try really hard I should make it.

However after a while I've noticed the point where I lost the right trail and suddenly I decided that I'll give it a try, I will run the entire route anyway. After all I am not professional runner - I do it for fun and it would be rather boring if everything was predictable.

In result I had amazing 83 minutes of jogging in beautiful scenery of forests and lakes. I did not run for so long since my younger son was born in August 2008 so I was rather surprised that I managed to get back to my car - but what a nice surprise it was! :)