Cursa La Maquinista - 10k

The plan was to go for 39 minutes. But after a week of 35 ºC and above and less sleep than normal I was not sure what I could do this morning. Also the course has quite some climbs in it, so all in all not really good circumstances to run fast. I arrived on time at the other end of Barcelona do warm up and prepare for the race. Once again we started at the edge of the Commercial Centre La Maquinista, what makes for a less than perfect start since it is very narrow the first 100 meters, then a turn to the right and soon after that and a second turn into a wide street where we soon can settle for a pace. I pass the first km in exactly 3m54 and the second in 7m44, but I feel like I have to work to hard to maintain that pace. After 3k I am still on pace, but the next 3k is full of streets going up noticably and I have to slow down there. When reaching the highest point I am tired already and it is very very warm and humid so the last 4k to the finish I don't really push hard. Just running to finish, since breaking 39 minutes was clearly impossible today. In the end I finished in 41m48, considering all not too bad. Now back to the mountains for a race in september.