Had a good start. Side stitch started at around Mile 1.5 and was bugging me for at least half a mile, I kept running through it. Hit the park at around Mile 2.5 and because the path was quite narrow for the amount of people, I was stopped up in some traffic. At around mile 4, my left knee started bothering me. The last hill was right at mile 6 and I was ready to be done with this.

My goal was to do this race under 58 mins. That didn't happen, but I am still happy with my result.

Start out a little slower, but therefore increase speed throught the race and not the other way round.

Stretched asap, because left knee and hamstring were very tight and then walked back to the car.


The small stuff (side stitch, traffic, knee pain), but overall this was a good pace for my first 10K.


The only thing that I would have liked to see, would be a couple more volunteers that are cheerful. When I hit the water station after the finish line, they ran out of cups.