Updates · Running
Below are my latest updates from Mastodon (similar to X, Bluesky, Threads, etc).
🗞️New blog post: “Grenaa Halvmarathon - 6 timers ULTRA løb” (En: 6 hour ultra run) 🏃🏻♂️
Quick post summarizing the experience I had at the 6 hour race a week back. Post is in English despite the Danish title (I usually keep the original title for transparency).
https://moelholm.com/blog/running/2026/03/21/race_grenaa_6timers
8K Run
“Easy” … well low impact but my heart rate is sky high. HRV off. Also higher breath rate at night. My body wants me to continue this recovery ❤️🩹 I’m sure 😂😇. It will be tough - but I will try to resist my normal volume and intensity until race day on Friday evening 🤠👍🏻. Need to be ready to the backyard ultra. Not just ready. Hyper ready 😆🥳
15K Mixed road/trail
Tired legs. I have a backyard ultra in a week (Friday : 8 days from now), so I’ve decided to ramp down volume and intensity … starting tomorrow. That way I hope to arrive recovered and ready to rock and roll 🎸 😇
16K Run with another marathon tempo session inside 🚀😂
Today included a Runna tempo session. Over and unders. Like this:
Run 4 x (1K fast + 1K faster).
So 8K coherent higher pace.
The trick is that the fastest kilometer overloads the blood with lactate. Then the other fast - but slower - kilometer tries to have you reuse the lactate (while under pressure still). This should “teach” you to become more efficient at clearing the lactate - before 🔥💥😵
16K Run
Midway during the run I looked at one of my phone notifications and it was GOOD. It was an event from my web site change monitor … and it told me that the Danish ultra run waiting list for “Mors 100 Miles” had become open for signing up (3 free slots). So I stopped running and immediately signed up. Even though I’m far down on the list … there is a chance I’ll get into the race. If the list changes as much as last year 🙏🏻🥳🤗🤞🏼🤞🏼
15K Run
A gentle Monday run 🙂. Some nasty headwind to the midway point … but then ofc equally nice tailwind back home 🏡 again 😆. Muscles still “tired” after Saturday’s adventure 🤠
13K Sunday run (trail/road half n half)
Yesterday’s adventure had for sure left its mark 😂. Took it easy today 😇
Update: Apparently it resulted in the second longest distance today 🥈🤯 (out of 60ish finishers)
What a nice surprise. Also … if I knew that a runner was so close then I would have used the last 8 minutes a bit better 🤣 … I was literally just cozy jogging with all the others at the finish line 😆. I’m lucky that the other person (3rd) didn’t catch up (also I think perhaps that person too didn’t know he was so close 🙃)
From: @moelholm
https://fosstodon.org/@moelholm/116228368596617280
🌳🐿️Grenaa Halvmarathon - 6 timers ULTRA løb
71K is what it amounted to today on today’s 6h race 👌🏻. That was pretty nice …. I attempted (for the first time ever) a negative split. By bumping pace every 2h. At the end it wasn’t super true to the plan (had to dig deep to summon the power).
This also resulted in a new 50K PB (by 12 min). But to be fair the old one was set in January (cold!) 2024 and a more exposed route. But I’ll take it 🤗
| Run | NEW Shoes: ✨ASICS Superblast 2✨👏🏻 |
12K windy easy run 🏃🏻♂️. Best road shoes imaginable 👌🏻.
Count down: T-2 days until race day 👌🏻🤠
