Race Report – Solvikingarnas 10,000m 2016/05/05

Planned: spontaneous 10,000m race….

Actual: 10,000m – 43:27
First track race. All to be improved!

Arrived pretty early for late registrations. Went perfectly. Got my name in the board within 2minutes in first heat with all ladies.
Changed shorts and attached my bib to my MIK sports bra. Hesitated to remove the compression socks.

Lined up with all others. Met my lap-counter. And it was 30 seconds left to start. Paved myself in Lane 1, add apparently nobody wanted it.
Quick start. Passed by Hanna Ö from Solvikingarna around 100m in ans Karin Schön after 200m. Had no clue about what pave I had. Magnus from MIK indicated 90 sec after first lap. Which was way too fast. Second lap was still nice and completed first km in 3:54. That won’t last I thought. And indeed. Running round round round made it more difficult to appreciate the pace. No back to hang along with. Got passed by 3 Solvikingarna and one IF Kville during the race. Nothing really happening. Missed the water cup after 6 laps or so. Got a dextrosol from E after 10 laps and 17 laps.
Felt that the pace was not in sync with tee effort I wanted to put into the race.  The 9km intervals session from Tuesday was probably still in the legs. Just run and did not push much at all. Sure no easy especially with the sun and then the wind every second half.
Got passed twice by the two first ladies and maybe one more.
So nice seeing only 1-digit for the laps left to run. Although when my lap-counter said 2km to go, I felt better and actually could accelerate…
Arrived happy and not really tired. 3 minutes more than expected. At least there is now a time to beat on track!

The best with this race? Cheering from G&T close to 100m-mark and E at the lap-counting.

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Weather: sun and warm and windy

Food: banana pancake @7:30am / chicken leg in oven+potatoes+zucchini after coming back home
During: 2 dextrosol
Right after: 3-4 sport-drink cups & 1 banana

Gear: ADIDAS Supernova Blue line shorts, MIK Casall iconic sports bra black,  compression socks compressport. Shoes all fine for their second outing!

Shoes: ADIDAS Adizero Adios Boost – Purple  (Quicky)

16/ Tougher than planned. Probably not the best day to choose for a spontaneous race…

NOTE: body felt indecently fine during the race. Thought the hip would complain, but nope. Very sweaty during. Took a few water cups to throw water in the head and the thighs for cooling down. Worked perfectly.

NOTE: a bit of work needed to master this type of race with laps. Not having many runners was not helping neither to maintain the pace.

Rest during the afternoon under the sun. All fine under the sun!