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Jan Billy Aas (37) have linked on joggeskoa and is standing on a walkway along the E18 close to home Kråkstad. With a special tool he has measured up a distance of 1017 metres. Today he run it 21 times the way that he conducts a half-marathon.
He is alone and without identification, but nevertheless it is a competition he takes seriously.
– It is the competitions that are the motivation of my to run. When is the virtual race instead of those that are cancelled, ” he says.
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Aas have a very specific goal with the run. He should take 1000 competitions before he turns 40 years old in the summer of 2022. In the last year was he able 139 competitions, and in the year he was signed up for the marathon in Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro in addition to the most he could come over here at home.
Now everything is cancelled or postponed for several months ahead.
With 837 runs on your CV and just in excess of two years to the 40-year anniversary, he is depending on an almost equally intensive konkurransesommer in the year.
– last year there was, so to speak, just ran, for my part, and not so much training between races. But we løpeglade people will always find a solution. Now the virtual race, ” he says.
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For though the Aas run alone this day, is he part of an event. In two years, Frode Monsen through the website Sportsmanden had a løpskarusell going where people compete without having to meet physically.
the Concept is that people are running 5, 10 or 21,1 km in their own neighbourhoods. They document both the time-and that they’ve run far enough through the mobile apps or GPS watches, and sends this to Monsen.
He checks the materials, set up a list of results and selects the winners.
This spring Monsen has extended the offer powerful, and in the weekend is the half marathon-weekend. Therefore, it is Jan Billy Aas runs just 21,1 kilometers this day.
For many recreational athletes are the competitions very important, also for the social. I hit always someone I know when it is ran. It is a bit of what we’re trying to transfer to a virtual race, where we have a network on Facebook also. Some say that it is surprisingly fun to run for yourself when you make it so, ” says Monsen.
The virtual races to Frode Monsen has become even more relevant when other competitions have been cancelled.
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For many it can be a bit harder to push your body as hard when you run alone and without identification. At the same time, Monsen seen people deliver very good times in his competitions.
He has set up some simple rules to prevent that people choose trails that just go in the descents. He is still not quite as strict with løypeprofil and control measurements as large mosjonsløp. But he believes that the GPS measurements have become so precise that the margin of error on distances, seldom more than a few metres.
to friends and yourself you can say that you have managed to run a certain distance or set a personal record. And you also have a list you can refer to, ” he says.
Monsen started with this before koronaviruset led to canceled contests. Now both individuals, clubs, sportskjeden Löplabbet and larger løpsarrangører about to fling themselves on.
Løpemagasinet Stamina has gone in the time the virtual marathon – and ultraløp this spring. Doing the same Runners World in the Uk. They launched their variant on Friday, where they both challenge people to run his first marathon, and they also have competitions which is about to log the workout in order to achieve a certain number of miles in april-the month. In the week of easter is it’s own competitions.
– Now it is about to make it easy so people will want to be with, ” says business developer Kent Gasmann.
Came in the goal
Jan Billy Aas have signed up for virtual competitions even abroad, and hope to get competed much this spring.
And Friday’s half-marathon, he came safely through even though he has known on a sore achilles the last time. The time was in excess of 1 hour and 37 minutes.
– With regards to the form, and that I don’t have the speed in the body for the time being, I’m actually pretty well satisfied. It was incredibly heavy the last five miles, but I’m satisfied with that I left to go report him after the race.
Jan Billy Aas ran back and forth on the walkway until he had completed a half-marathon. It was a piece of behind his personal record, but he is still satisfied.
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