It’s racing time again. Now during winter it’s the 10k’s again. The Aktia Cup winter series as last year with it’s second run. The series starts in Novmeber and consists of 5 runs. Pretty much the best crowd you can run with in Finland at this point in the year.
Thought about a novelty this time and decided to run according to feeling, not according to the wrist watch. Well, I made the decision 45 mins before the start when recognizing that I forgot my sports watch at home. Stupid me. As someone who measures pretty much all that’s measurable within the normal limits of an hobby athlete, the concept of running a race without 1km lap times is like going on an expedition without a compass. You think you can manage and trust your instincts, but half way in you recognize that it probably wasn’t such a good idea.
The first two kilometers are down hill, those are not about speed, but rather finding a rythm. It felt as the shoes were swimming around a bit on the wet street surface. Km 3 is then when running starts. And immediately other runners came flying by. That has always been that way, I never can hold my horses in the beginning. Km 4 and 5 felt awkward. The intermediate time at 5km was 17:33min. Not bad as such. Double it and it had been a new personal best in this project. Well easier said than done. It was a fight on km 6 and I took it easier on km 7. Then could accelerate on km 8 and 9 and it felt as if I was going damn fast. Well in my dreams. Even with a 500m acceleration to a full sprint to the finish line it was a 36:17min. No good at all. I’ve been 4 seconds faster same time last year, with probably 3000km less behind me.
Fu.. it. Running can be shitty sometimes.
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