After some weeks of less than optimal training today another 10k. This time I wanted to try and go out at 4m30/k pace. I did not think to be in shape for going under 45 minutes yet, but at least I wanted to try and see how long I can maintain that pace. After warming up, with some strange aches in my left knee that luckily dissappeared I lookd for my start box, which with the many runners that were out today was already way back from the real start line. I knew that the first kilometers would be chaotic for the same reason.
At 17h15 we were counted down and it took 2 minutes just to cross over the real start and the first meters were way off the pace I was hoping for and only after some 500 meters I could start running normally and somehow managed to do the first kilometer in exactly 4m30. The second, third and fourth were still very chaotic with people going at very different paces, some falls because of that, but I still managed to maintain pace eventhough the irregular running takes more energy, Just before the 5km mark we make a sharp U-turn and that also made me slow down a bit and I crossed there in 22m39. The next kilometer was not as bad as other times, but I did slow down somewhat. The seventh kilometer was maybe the hardest and the slowest. From the 8km mark it is just straight and very slightly downhill as well as the last 500m so as soon as you make the turn you can see the finish line. I was very tired already and just tried to accelerate a bit and finished in 46m09s, surprisingly one second slower than a few weeks ago, but happy with how it went overall.
I will likely do some other 10k and then pick up training for the mountains again.
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