20-05-2012, 08:00 PM
Last weekend I ran the Gothenburg half marathon, which started out as quite stressful. I almost didn't make it to my start group, which was the 4th out of 24.
On top of that I had worked every day during the week for 16 hours on the house. The last two days I laid the floor-heating, which meant kneeling continously.
That meant no running at all from the Sunday until the Saturday when the race took place.
So I was quite tired when going to the race. I had hopes for running at least around 1:30.
The first 12 km went fine. I had a pace of around 4:00-4:10. I didn't feel tired at all. Then suddenly all energy and strength went out of my legs. There was no problem for the heart and breating keeping up. Only the legs. Then I knew I would only lose in pace until the finish line - I was afraid I wouldn't finish at all.
During the first half of the race I ran past lots and lots of people. But in the second half it was the other way around. Not so proud moment. But I did finish. And at the time 1:33.50. In fact I'm quite proud of it considering no running the last week and very tough stress on the quadracep muscles on the last two days before.
In other circumstances I think I would have done better.
On top of that I had worked every day during the week for 16 hours on the house. The last two days I laid the floor-heating, which meant kneeling continously.
That meant no running at all from the Sunday until the Saturday when the race took place.
So I was quite tired when going to the race. I had hopes for running at least around 1:30.
The first 12 km went fine. I had a pace of around 4:00-4:10. I didn't feel tired at all. Then suddenly all energy and strength went out of my legs. There was no problem for the heart and breating keeping up. Only the legs. Then I knew I would only lose in pace until the finish line - I was afraid I wouldn't finish at all.
During the first half of the race I ran past lots and lots of people. But in the second half it was the other way around. Not so proud moment. But I did finish. And at the time 1:33.50. In fact I'm quite proud of it considering no running the last week and very tough stress on the quadracep muscles on the last two days before.
In other circumstances I think I would have done better.
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