New week

I've finished the last week with a trip through Wielkopolski Park Narodowy. On Friday night I was falling asleep with one dream only: find a position in which my hip won't hurt. but On Saturday I woke up feeling quite OK. However I decided that running to Jaroslawieckie Lake and back (18 km) could be too much so I decided that I'll take a train to Szreniawa and from there I'll rung along the green trail to Lake Jaroslawieckie and from there along the well known route home.

Entrance to the Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa

Boulder in front of the Museum of Agriculture

The weather was rather cold (-10C) and from the beginning the trip proved to be more difficult than I expected. I had to run some 2 km in order to find the beginning of the green trail and once I found it I kept loosing it quite often. After some 20 minutes I passed the first landmark on my way - Mausoleum of the first owners of Szreniawa - Bierbaums circa 1860.

It turned out that on that day I did one smart thing (besides a few stupid ones) I took with my mobile a picture of a detailed map of that area and on my way I was able to zoom it in and check the trail. This help proved priceless as there were very few marks on the trail and worst of all - very seldom the turns were marked as such so I frequently had to trot back when I realized that I took the wrong turn.

By the time I reached Lake Jaroslawieckie I had already covered almost 10 km and was quite scared how am I going to reach home.

Most beautiful view of the day - Lake Jaroslawieckie behind the trees - at least I knew where I was!

Once I reached Lake Jaroslawieckie I knew more or less what to expect and I begun slow jogging home. The first few kilometres were quite good but during the last 4 or 5 I had only one ambition - to maintain a hart rate of at least 120 bpm.

By the time I reached home my Forerunner was showing over 19 km. As I checked later I burned over 2000 calories - not bad :)

Altogether I run last week over 52 kilometres - I hope that I'll match it this week.