Then it was time for my eldest son Tor making premiere at the 10 k distance. My idea was to take the 2 weeks of träningsledigt after the Ironman Zurich, and so far it’s gone well. Was out there and ran a very easy pass on 6 k last Friday for bringing the body a little only. But this race I have run 3 years in a row before, so it’s just stupid to break a fine tradition.
The weather was not very nice, rain, wind and 13 degrees. I and Tor found inomhushallen, and ran the warming there. The body felt pretty OK though, and we warmed in a little over 10 minutes, with some speed increases at the end to get your heart rate up.
We walked out 10 minutes before the start, and there I met Erik, Johan and Keke that would also run. I had no idea how the body would react, but I said I went in for under 40 in all cases. It, I have been running before. Tor stood in the middle of the start Group for over 5 min/km pace, as he aimed to go under 50 minutes.
I put me as usual, just behind the elite, and was waiting for the starting gun. In the middle of människohögen I put me. It’s warmer there.
But when the shot went, it was usually difficult to keep again. I quickly went out to the left and passed a lot of slower runners before I got into the rhythm after a few hundred metres. I was going to run solely on the pulse, and so got the pace to become what it became. And without reaching the top of the threshold heart rate went first mile at 3:38, so I continued in the same tempo, type. And in the second kilometer, I came up in the threshold heart rate, 156 strokes per minute.
Second mile was a little up, and finished in 3:54, but the third went in 3:46. Now I was up there over threshold heart rate, and I figured I stick in there and see how your body reacts. As usual, says the head stop, but now I know better, and push on anyway. Halfway I was stable just under 4 min/km, but then came the headwind, and a few kilometers just over 4. Now the pulse has risen, and was steadily over 160.
In spite of this, I felt I had pretty much be at 40, so I kept pressing. I know I can handle myself quite some time pretty close to max, and now I lay on 97% of my estimated maximum heart rate during the latest test in the spring. So I had to remain there as long as their legs could.
And they could. Last few kilometers there is even more at will, and last 500 are up to while trying. I squeezed out the last out of the body, and finished in 39:11 according to my watch. only 1 second slower than last year on this course, and then I had topped shape before the race, so I was very happy! The official time was 39:09, and 88.
Soon afterwards went Keke in goal at 39:46, the first time over 40! And pretty soon was also Erik and Johan in at just over 41 minutes. Great borne by everyone.
But I was waiting at the finish line at Tor. He had no clock, so I didn’t know if he had run for gently, or run like I know he can. And pretty soon I got the answer-he had run like I know he can! He came in at 45:11 and 320 who completed the placement of 1269. Incredibly good! The next year he hit me, or give me a hearty match, if he puts in a little interval training in your schedule.
Afterwards, I was really cold, after waiting on Tor at the destination, and then on the wind and the other children, so when we went to the dressing room it had been safely half an hour out in the rain and the wind. A hot shower, a warm change of clothes, and a walk back into the city centre where we traditionally eat Chinese food buffet until we are gorged.
But this somewhere I felt that I did not feel particularly good. Matt, pain throughout the body, and feverish. I was driving home, but once there I had to curl up on the sofa in a large down comforter, and then I fully decked. It was a reaction to the hard physical exertion followed by cooling.
After 3 hours in this State, I took a dose pronaxen and voltaren, and after some hour I felt the fever dropped. Today, Sunday, I feel better, but the body needed enough to recover properly, and I suffered enough even by the suites from Ironman the weekend before.