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Press Ctrl+F , type race , it's all over the page, but not in a separate pointed out post indeed. Here is the initial post about the race, 10 days before it.
I have a 4km race next Sunday ( kinda XC, road but with a lot of uphill and downhill, but not too much ). Goal is sub 5:00 average pace ( so sub 20:00 total ).
Damn it, should have pointed out more clear, i think i over-did it in preparation, not enough recovery/tapering, you would have prevented me from that.
15 December 2019
RACE DAY: 3.6K @ 17:42 electronic
First race ever below 5:00 km pace ( average for this was 4:55 ) ,
Weird race. Didn't know the course, didn't know the exact distance. Turned out to not be a road race after all, it was, say, 30% road and 70% trail. Previous days had much rain so there were muddy parts too. In general my Takumi Sen adizeros were not particularly happy about the surface.
Also it was all uphill and downhill, the entire race, no flat part at all. First half was downhill, went out too fast, had 4:20 average pace at around 700m in, actively slowed down to not gas out later. Good choice, the finishing km was the hardest, intense uphill ( 20-30m vertical rise worth ), would have serious problems if i haven't reserved some juice, went all out at it to record a 5:05 pace at it ( did 2:58 for ~570m ), pretty well.
I am happy that i broke 5:00 average. I am somewhat unhappy because i thought i was good for much more in a so short race, like 4:30 or so, but my mind doesn't accept the XC/trail difficulty part as an excuse, which was decisive.
The only way i can 'feel' i did well is looking at the results: i am 10th out of 70 people. Winner did 13:50 , 2nd and 3d just below 14:30 and 4th did 16:00. So winner was ~3:50, podium was around 4:00 and 4th place was 4:30. I guess it was a hard slow-ish race, so my 4:55 is a pretty good average pace. Ill take it.
