Tuesday, August 31, 2004

After the race

Two days after the race I feel pretty well. Feet, knees, and muscles are no problem anymore, in fact except for my left calf and left ankle I didn't encounter any pain during the race. But these two were bad enough. The ankle started to ache after around 25k and the calf after 34k. actually that's not new for me in most of my marathons I got the nearly same pain after around 28 to 35k. It feels like my leg is "founding" and gets very slow. Real concentration on each next step helps to continue the race but a (temporary) speed loss is hardly avoidable. But as I ran with my fellow Udo, and he had similar problems with his calf, together we were strong, haha... Ah, wait, I had another pain after the race, and this one is also very known, it's my lumbar vertebra / back. No surprise as I really do not enough gymnastics exercises at all! Herefor I need some advice ;-)

If you are interested, here are my 5k splits:
05k - 0:23:27
10k - 0:46:04 (0:22:37)
15k - 1:08:40 (0:22:36)
20k - 1:30:26 (0:21:46)
21,1k - 1:35:33
25k - 1:52:59 (0:22:33)
30k - 2:15:57 (0:22:58)
35k - 2:40:18 (0:24:21)
40k - 3:02:54 (0:22:36)
42,2k - 3:12:10 (1:36:37)

Finally, I had average times of 4:33min/km resp. 7:19min/mile.

Before the start

The marathon(wo)men before the start (By the way, Charlotte is 57 years old and she clocked with a 3:43!!!).



2 Comments:

At August 31, 2004 at 8:48 PM, Blogger Oliver said...

"Nice shorts", really? Or is that irony ;-) ... Actually that was my 13th marathon, I had 1 in 1999, 1 in 2000, 2 in 2001, 2 in 2002, 5 in 2003, and that was the 2nd in 2004... Maybe I will add another one this year...

 
At August 31, 2004 at 9:27 PM, Blogger Mark said...

wow...those are really terrific and consistent splits Oliver. And nice job Charlotte!

 

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