The idea spread out suddenly with the effect of nuclear bomb.
It was 3.30 pm and there was only 50 minutes to sunset. I don't how but in 10 minutes I found myself running toward the near metro station.
All thoughts about going to nearest stadium, park or casual street running were immediately rejected.
In 50 minutes I was in the forest on Novebelichi district ready to rush into the dark. Of course I took my best freind - garming forerunner 405 gps. To make it challenging I turned on virtual partner on my gps with the speed 12 km/h. The basic goal, to run 25 kilometers flew away, when I run first kilometer. The heart rate was quite normal so I decided to increace the speed to be on on one leg with my virtual partner. The road became very slippy, every step was very hard. After first fall I realized that I need to concetrate my mind in the legs. One more such fall and my running would stop. After 5 minutes I left all remains of civilization and got into the absolute silence. I have never been alone in the dark forest and it was the last chance to turn back. However, I stoped my hesitations, turned on the music and increased my speed.
About 20 minutes I struggled with ice, wind and darkness when I saw the light in 1-2 km i front of me. Then first houses apeared and the only thing which left to me was to turn back. But running back by the same road was very simple so I left the main road and steped into the forest. And It was the main part on my adventures. Visibility was incredibly low, some times tree branches lashed my face and narrow road with a holes made movend made fast run completle impossible. I turned left on the better way and suddenly I noticed strange figures right side among the trees. Another figures were in 50 steps and seemed that it were men sitting in a circle. My leg struck at metal fence but previous experience helped me to avoid the fall... Suddenly I realized that it was cemitry and that figures of men were tombs. I turned around with the speed of lightning and run on previos route. The hearate about 30 bpm above the normal and I heard every beat of my heart. I realized that I could measure my fear in bpm, km/h and steps per miniute. Dark forest is not realy nice place to run. How good that I had pointed the main road on gps!
The way back seemed me very long. Two times I fell down and the second one was very hard. I felt cold and the only thing wich warmed me was Mylene Farmer songs on my ipod. My start poid was closer and closer but virtual partner was still in 3 minutes ahead. I grabbed the last effort and tried to move faster. But forest made me the last surprise: I missed the way-back and road became increadible hard for running, very twisty with puddles and ice.
I reached the start point with the result 1:10:47 and 13.46 km. My VP was still ahead :( Anyway it was definetly my best run of this year!
This run moved me closely to my next goal - run 25 km.
Details of running are on:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/1544759
