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A bit too cold for comfortable breathing today at 9 °C, but low pollen counts on the other hand.

Today I made the first attempt at running for the year, because the weather was good and I got the impulse to burn money on a new pair of running shoes to replace the pair I accidentally left behind in the Arvika Festival camping mud last summer.

The short running lap felt quite good for the first run in almost 2 years. Didn't even feel like a squeaky-toy afterwards, but there probably isn't much pollen in the air yet.

This is my standard running lap around the locks in Kinda canal. (Not that I've actually run that lap since 232.)

I made the 5.4 km race in 36m50s, which turns out to be the best time/km in the season by some tenths of a second. The first 2 km was very crowded which made it very hard to keep a good pace, so next year I'll try to remember to get myself a better starting position.

Well, today I didn't quite make the full lap as I set out to do. But it wasn't all wasted, with the 2nd best time/km in the season. And the extra antihistamine dosage trick still works to keep breathing possible.

Now I've run the full 6.3 km lap around both locks in the canal; at 11 °C and 94 %RH it was very easy on the breathing so I clocked in at 6m50s per km on the average. Starts feeling really good about the possibility of keeping up with the regular running this summer.

I think the birches have more or less finished their yearly bukkake session, and it's been raining a lot to help clean the air of filth.

When I was running the last ¼ of the lap someone fired off a load of fireworks further down, and a little later I ran through a 30 m large cloud of powdersmoke that slowly drifted along the canal. Quite surreal.

A rather fast run today, in ~22 minutes. Lateish evening, with a bit more moisture in the air, still works the best it seems. With this rate of improvement I should be able to make the http://blodomloppet.se/ 5 km run on June 1st.

I'm confused about the actual distances of the canal half-laps, but the short one again in 24 minutes. Set out for a longer ~5 km lap but I decided that ~3 km would be good enough when I started getting hints of breathing getting painful. Too dry air perhaps, because of the sudden warmth.

The running season didn't start as good as I'd planned because I cought a bad cold that had me in bed for a week and then it was too chilly outside when I had recovered. But today was a good combination of weather and health so I tried the longer half of the Kinda canal lap. ~4 kms in 31 minutes this time, making a time/km under 8 minutes.

I doped myself with extra antihistamine dosage before running and didn't notice much breathing problems I had expected due to the recently added bitrch pollen.

I did the short ~3 km lap by the kanal, without precision timing or anything fancy like that, but I was away from home for about 25 minutes. That makes ~8 minutes/km. Not too bad for the first run in the season, and the big success was that I made the lap without any breathing difficulties or such badness.

I really should've clipped my toe nails before I went out though. Then there'd be less blood in the wrong place.

I tried to pick up my 7 km jogging lap again today, but I had to abort after 3 kms because it started hurting too much to breathe the cold air. I had really needed that endorphine rush, but instead all I got was reinforcement for the depression and sense of worthlessness.

My legs were very restless when I got home from the flight and train trip from Luleå via Z'ha'dum, so I went out for a run. To be on the safe side, I reinforced the antihistamine dosage beforehand and that was miraculous. No breathing problems at all despite running for 45 minutes.

Pollen season has definitely begun so breathing gets to be more of a challenge while doing exercise outdoors, like running by the canal. But some excellent trip-hop in my mp3 player got me all the way around and back home again.