Two weeks until Oslo Marathon, where I plan to run half marathon. Haven't done much running this summer, so it's about time to get some distance in the legs. Two weeks before a race is a good time to run the full distance, so today I ran around the Tromsø island. It's about 23 km and quite flat.

I started out easy in fat-burning pace at about 6 min/km and slowly increased to about 5:45 min/km for the rest of the run. Was a good exercise with a bit of suffering in the end. I always start to feel it after about 17 km, and today I had to switch the music to Sepultura in order to keep up the pace. Their Roots album is great to listen to while suffering. Anyway things feels quite good before Oslo, so now I will concentrate on speed intervals next week.

My personal best for half marathon is 1:41:15 (MSM 2007) and in order to beat the time I will have to run at a pace of 4:45/km or better.