I am really glad that this is over! The whole day I was worrying about this race and was wondering if it was such a good idea. I was worried about my knee and my hip and mostly about the fact that I had no idea how I would be able to run close to the time that I ran in the Olympic the other day, let alone beat that time.
Well somehow I did....don't know how and all in all this run was not that hard. I increased the pace a lot during the last 2km and that was tough but if I would have kept that steady pace from the first 8km I would have had a bit harder than moderate race but definitely nothing impossible. That really surprised me!
Head/sidewind the first 5km and I did that in 26:01 and then tail/sidewind on the way back and I did the second 5km in 25:33. And then the course seem to have been long. Most of the runner measured it about 150m too long which is a shame as I would have run sub 52 minutes then. But it was a PB after all by 22 seconds and I take that.
Pacing was perfect the entire race!