After a week of rest and massage to try and fix a muscle in the groin area I wasn't very sure about running a 10k today, but on the other hand I thought that doing one might also give me an idea of what I could expect for the longer mountain race next week. So after a very cold and rainy Saturday, both Jordi and I jogged down to the starting area in front of "el Corte Inglés" en Diagonal. The weather this Sunday was much better, somewhat windy and certainly not warm, but at least no rain. Due to Covid they decided to change the route so the start would have more space for all runners. The new route looked to be very fast even though I was going to go at easy pace. Jordi did want to go for sub 45 minutes. After an easy warmup we split up when entering our starting boxes, since Jordi did not have an official time below 50 minutes yet and they wouldn't allow me in his box for some reason.
At 9 am we started to run and very soon Jordi passed me. Not easy to start slow for me, but I definitely wanted to finish without stressing the pectineus muscle that somehow got irritated and somewhat inflamed a bit over a week ago. The first 2k I was just above 45m pace in 9m10 and after I slowly gained on that schedule without much effort passing 5k around 21m45. From there on I was holding back and just maintain a decent pace until the finish line. I was more than happy to finish under 45 minutes without any issues. So now it was just a matter of some easy runs and stretching and foam rolling muscles preparing for the next race.
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