08-05-2012, 07:47 PM
Hello world!
Sunday did my first performance as an official pacemaker in a small race (500+ people more or less) organized by my running club, corredors.cat, the 10K Cursa de Sant Quirze del Vallès, Memorial David Rovira. It's a race in memory of a child who passed away in an accident about 6 years ago, his father is a member of our club.
I'm pretty happy with the experience, it's a two 5K laps race and with a lot of changes in altimetry, so impossible to set cruise pace. I had to aim to sub 40' and did it in 39'47" so quite good. On the first lap I tried to preserve energy and passed the 5K marker in 20:10. Then I panicked a little bit about the loss of time and tried to get the second lap a little bit faster to compensate. I was worried about the runners who were running along with me but the ones that got to the first 5K also ended with me and got greetings of many of them so I think it was more or less successful at the challenge
Sunday did my first performance as an official pacemaker in a small race (500+ people more or less) organized by my running club, corredors.cat, the 10K Cursa de Sant Quirze del Vallès, Memorial David Rovira. It's a race in memory of a child who passed away in an accident about 6 years ago, his father is a member of our club.
I'm pretty happy with the experience, it's a two 5K laps race and with a lot of changes in altimetry, so impossible to set cruise pace. I had to aim to sub 40' and did it in 39'47" so quite good. On the first lap I tried to preserve energy and passed the 5K marker in 20:10. Then I panicked a little bit about the loss of time and tried to get the second lap a little bit faster to compensate. I was worried about the runners who were running along with me but the ones that got to the first 5K also ended with me and got greetings of many of them so I think it was more or less successful at the challenge