Still far from recovered, but improving and learning to take it easy. After the last training session I had my doubts about how to approach today's 10k. This time I arrived nicely on time and did a lot of warmup exercises to loosen joints and muscles. Not so much running, more swinging and rotation. To force myself to start slowly I lined up in the middle of the pack. This race is very much a popular race and the atmosphere is really fun!!! A older man was telling everybody how cold it was, he might be well over seventy years old!!! But since it was both a 10k and a 5k mixed many people of the neighbourhood signed up. Some raindrops fell down, but it was really some astray drops, no rain luckily, because that would indeed have made it a cold morning.
At nine o'clock we were shot away and slowly I picked up pace. The first kilometer this time was in 4m30 which was a much more reasonable pace for my condition at the moment. The next kilometers we winded through narrow streets and went up and down to go passed the finish area after a first 5k in just over 21m30. The first round was very crowded but the second round with all the 5k runners done was much better to just run your own pace. After the 7k marker I more or less saturated both breath wise and right underleg wise. This time it was my calcaneus (lowest part of the heel) that was unhappy but I worked hard on maintaining pace and running form and after 43m31 I crossed the finish line in much better shape then some weeks ago.
On to the next race, though I am not sure yet when that will be!!!
