Late last year I decided that I wanted to run a marathon in 2013, I picked the marathon of Amsterdam (20th of October 2013). So I started to run a bit and found out I actually had quite a good condition, with cycling to work and back each day, 22km a day. My first training run was a bit too enthusiastic where I severely sprained my ankle, so after some recuperation time, 6 weeks of down-time, I finally could pick up the training again.
I did want to get to know how such an event felt like so I signed up for a 10km run in Rotterdam (14th of April 2013) and the half-marathon in Leiden (26th of May 2013).
My training schedule aimed for prepping for the 10km I already had some nice runs and decided to take the timeframe of running it between 45 and 55 minutes. There was another one in the 10km run that was 55+ minutes.
And today was the day. Looking back on the run itself I must say that eventhough I can easily run the 10km, this was different. Were it the nerves? I don't know but what does fall to notice was the increase in temperature it was between 16-17oC which I had never run in before. Only in the -10 to +10oC. the nerves caught me actually in giving in to much in a sprint in the beginning but after some good music from Volbeat and Fall Out Boy (there new albums rock btw!). I soon found my pacing and managed to put down a nice first time as you can see below.
I must say I am quite happy with the results! Now upping my training scheme for the half-marathon/marathon. Quite excited about that!
Bests,
Jasper
I did want to get to know how such an event felt like so I signed up for a 10km run in Rotterdam (14th of April 2013) and the half-marathon in Leiden (26th of May 2013).
My training schedule aimed for prepping for the 10km I already had some nice runs and decided to take the timeframe of running it between 45 and 55 minutes. There was another one in the 10km run that was 55+ minutes.
And today was the day. Looking back on the run itself I must say that eventhough I can easily run the 10km, this was different. Were it the nerves? I don't know but what does fall to notice was the increase in temperature it was between 16-17oC which I had never run in before. Only in the -10 to +10oC. the nerves caught me actually in giving in to much in a sprint in the beginning but after some good music from Volbeat and Fall Out Boy (there new albums rock btw!). I soon found my pacing and managed to put down a nice first time as you can see below.
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I must say I am quite happy with the results! Now upping my training scheme for the half-marathon/marathon. Quite excited about that!
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| The medal I got (I am not the first :)) |
Bests,
Jasper