After my ankle-injury in early-March, it seems as if my training is back in motion again. My training got a fresh restart exactly 3 weeks after the ankle got sprained, and things were not looking good at that time. My shinbone hurt immensely, most probably because it got a long rest. It's not yet fully sorted out, but I feel very little pain there nowadays.

So I had two weeks to get ready for the relay at Nógrád GP, which went fairly according to plan. I did everything I could, but wasn't strong enough. Btw, we got disqualified, as Celin did not read out on his first lap. Oh well, it wasn't a big deal after all.

The week after, we had Szarvasűzők, a university-based relay road race through the Bükk. Overall, I was doing fine, as I ran my 6,4 km in 30:35 and got 10th place out of 68. Oh, I forgot to mention the 350 m of climbing. But disaster struck - my left ankle (the healthy one) and my shoe in which I ran all winter long didn't really like each other, and the ankle got swollen. So I changed shoes.

Last week, we had some horrible weather here in Miskolc. As much as 100 mm of rain came down in a matter of 36 hours, which made the mountains a pure sea of mud. But for some strange reason, this made me run more. Last week, I made 65 kms of training from 6 efforts, 3 of which I mightily enjoyed. On Saturday, we ran down to Bogács through Hór-völgy, which was fantastic!

This week, I got even more desperate. I made three really hard trainings in 3 days:

• Tue: 5X5 minutes orienteering intervals on Komlóstető (3 minute rest in between)
• Wed: 4 hill intervals (330/60 m) - could barely move afterwards
• Thu: Tour de Bükkszentkereszt: Stadion - Vaskapu - Bükkszentkereszt - Esőház - Stadion. Started out fairly easy on this one, but got up to Vaskapu in 31' (5,3 km / 300 m). As I reached the top of the climbs, the cruising speed was all gone, and I started to run hard. Reached Bükkszentkereszt in 61' (11,1 km / 550 m) and then dug in deep. Was fairly tired from this point, but still managed to run the whole route (21,8 km / 650 m) in 108'. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/30977914

But this was all the hard training I planned for this week. My legs are stuffed as, so it will be really nice to do a recovery run - District Night Championships - tonight. Focus will be all on technique, and I will try to do the 6,8 km course in a sub-60' time. For some reason, my night-O confidence is right now on a high, so we shall see, what happens.

Future plans

My ultimate goal this spring is to get fit. To enjoy training as much as possible. This is of course half-done, but there are still some competitions of course. Hungaraian Relay Championships are on 13/6 and I will most probably run in DTC's second team. If the team is strong enough, the goal will be a top-6 finish. I will also start the Middle Champs, but will concentrate on a controlled, error-free run in the Qualifications and will see what happens. Two weeks before that, I'm running the Hungarian 24-hours relay, just for training. On the May 15 weekend, I'm running Mátra Cup, which should be some nice forest experience, with a forest-sprint, a relay, and a long. In 15 days, I will run the Hungarian Night Champs, with the only expectation to enjoy myself (and get my headlamp repaired by then :)

The most important thing right now is that I'm enjoying running again!

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