Lundaloppet - 1st, 16.20-ish (i think...i forgot to look!)
The big race through Lund today. A bit of an unusual\annoying start time - 15.30 - instead of the usual morning race times, leaving much of a day of resting and waiting! Fairly hot day, 15-16C but cloudy, making for harder running.
Wandered up to the race around 14.30, in time to see the 10k runners. I would def have preferred to run the 10k versus strong competition (good PB potential) but with a good fraction of the race on ankle-wrecking cobbles I decided to stick with the shorter distance.
Started off quite quickly - around 2.58 for the 1st km. One or two runners had decided to get there first, or had forgotten the remaining 4km :-) I unfortunately dropped some time (around 20s) heading up past the Botanical Garden from 1.5-2.5km, heading through 2km in around 6.28 and 3km in about 9.40. From 2.75km it was time from the cobbles; fortunately, the ankle held up to the punishment although it was difficult to run at full speed.
Had a quick look back with around 500m to go and saw another runner about 15s behind. With the noise of the police motorbike and support cycle whistles, I'd not realised anyone was that close back. So I hit the gas for the finish on the CIP track - greatly assisted by the great support of those watching!
Pleased with the time after all the injury problems - but will have to see how things are tomorrow with my ankle. Now to train to keep that pace going for 10km in Malmo in a month...
The big race through Lund today. A bit of an unusual\annoying start time - 15.30 - instead of the usual morning race times, leaving much of a day of resting and waiting! Fairly hot day, 15-16C but cloudy, making for harder running.
Wandered up to the race around 14.30, in time to see the 10k runners. I would def have preferred to run the 10k versus strong competition (good PB potential) but with a good fraction of the race on ankle-wrecking cobbles I decided to stick with the shorter distance.
Started off quite quickly - around 2.58 for the 1st km. One or two runners had decided to get there first, or had forgotten the remaining 4km :-) I unfortunately dropped some time (around 20s) heading up past the Botanical Garden from 1.5-2.5km, heading through 2km in around 6.28 and 3km in about 9.40. From 2.75km it was time from the cobbles; fortunately, the ankle held up to the punishment although it was difficult to run at full speed.
Had a quick look back with around 500m to go and saw another runner about 15s behind. With the noise of the police motorbike and support cycle whistles, I'd not realised anyone was that close back. So I hit the gas for the finish on the CIP track - greatly assisted by the great support of those watching!
Pleased with the time after all the injury problems - but will have to see how things are tomorrow with my ankle. Now to train to keep that pace going for 10km in Malmo in a month...
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