A race with the pros
I ran the 15k beneficial race “Carlos Lopes Golden Marathon” yesterday.
Time: 1 hour, 14 minutes 11 seconds, bellow my target… so… goal achieved!
The course was fairly easy, mostly downhill. Fuelling at around 6.5km (where I was passed by the marathon athletes and 12km (where they informed that the finish was 5k ahead… wrooooong).
Since this was not a race for the masses, the starting was smooth and unpopulated and the pace higher than in previous races I participated. I don’t have a clue about the number of athletes in the 15k race, but something around 400 should be near the truth.
Personally, I only start having problems around the 11th and 13th kilometre… after that I managed to end the race at full speed, making the last two kilometres quite easily.
A good event, well organized and with a nice course!
Next weeks, due to personnal constrains, I’ll do less mileage on my workouts and focus more on muscular wokouts, for total fitness purposes.
Balance is the key.
by Jose da Silva On June 13, 2008 at 13:10
Great!
Whats the next goal ?
by admin On June 15, 2008 at 18:17
Maybe try the half-maraython somewhere in September. But until then, I’m reducing mileage…