First official 10 km race - ZorgSpecialist Loop 2012
Disclaimer: Automatically translated from Russian
So the race took place, which I was waiting for and for which, like, I was preparing morally and physically for a couple of months.
The start took place in Schalkwijk, Haarlem district. The event consisted of 3 competitions: a family race of 1.4 km, a race of 5 km and 10 km, which I signed up for. I must say that these are my almost first competitions, which I went to voluntarily, without any blackmail, and even paid money for it :-) Yesterday, on the eve of the competition, I went to the start place to get a starting number. I received an envelope in which, in addition to the number with a microchip and the pin for attaching it to the body, there were several pieces of paper similar to some kind of advertising and discounts, it would be necessary to transfer at leisure. The weather yesterday was not very good - about 12 degrees, rain and a strong wind. He asked if the race would take place in such weather, to which they answered me - of course! Today, fortunately, the weather is more lucky - about 14 degrees without rain. For a long time I could not decide what to run for.Local residents run in shorts and t-shirts even in + 10, but for me this weather is not very comfortable - the body and head quickly cool, so I usually run in a sweatshirt. In the end, I decided to run in a T-shirt, and it was the right choice - it was very hot.
About 530-550 people signed up for 10 km. There was a general start of 5 and 10 kilometers, in the middle some people turned to the finish line, and the rest continued to run. At the start, I stood somewhere in the first third of the crowd. The people are very different - young and elderly, thin and not very, pale-faced and tanned, men and girls, with iPhones and with gps-hours. Start. We ran. The first couple of kilometers of the crowd mixed up and stretched - someone pulled forward, someone lagged behind. The police blocked the roads so that the people would calmly run. People at traffic lights greeted the participants in the competition.After they ran out of the city and rushed along the suburbs, the locals left the houses and also clapped and encouraged. The organizers stood on the track in places of key turns, showed the direction so that no one got lost (the ski competitions in which I participated in the school are immediately remembered, then I got lost in some field, without noticing the neck of the track, and in the end he returned to the place from where he started - the coach was not very happy).
It was hard to run. When you run alone, you usually listen to the sensations and do not run faster than you can. Here, someone overtakes you all the time, or you overtake someone looming in front. In general, the spirit of the competition is present and cannot be relaxed. Yesterday, I gave myself the idea that the main thing is to have fun, and not fall in the death of the brave on the track, trying to overtake the monsters.Figs there - does not work. After the last training, my headphones broke and had to run without music. And without music, I’m completely used to it - all sorts of thoughts climb into my head, the rhythm goes astray. At first I thought about why my starting number seems familiar to me. Then I remembered that I went to work on 140 buses. Then he began to think that it was somehow hard to run, that it was okay not to happen if you left the race. Well, this is a common thing - the first half of the hour is always difficult to run until a natural rhythm has developed. Then there stood people with cups of water. For some reason I took one and drank a couple of times. The next half a kilometer was having fun trying to cough up - the water somehow went the wrong way :-) Well, and then it went easier - kilometer marks began to appear - 7, 8. In even areas and areas in the slide you try to accelerate,because there is a descent ahead and you can rest. Well, on the descent you try to accelerate because it is a descent and it is customary to accelerate on it: - ) In general, familiar places began to appear - they were approaching the finish line. On the last kilometer I decided to overtake a couple more people at all costs. It turned out, but my growling face had to be seen: - ) Someone from the audience at the time of my overtaking gave out - power is life. Before the finish line I heard - Alexey Peskov, Harlem, finish, and time drew on the scoreboard - 44:34. The sensor on the number worked as it should, and I was worried: - ) Finished, started to get out. At the exit, they distributed water, some advertisements of the next races and socks. I found my parents and Nadia with the captain - at that time they played on the playground, and the father went with a camera and caught the finish. Over the next minutes, 30 people continued to finish.The last girl ran into the finish line, surrounded by four police motorcycles with sirens turned on and five bicycles - she was accompanied by the workers of the track :-) Everyone stood and clapped.
Then I went to the scoreboard to watch the results. I ran 91st. Of the more than 530 people, this is cool, especially since it improved its record time by more than 3 minutes (it was 47:45). The best result of the race is 34:39 (to get off), and in second place is some dark woman with time 34:57. At the time of viewing the scoreboard, the time of the last was 1:07:42. There are no victims and missing persons :-)
In general, I enjoyed the event very much. All organized at 5 points. But it should be so, if you do not cut money, but spend it on organizing an event. And there are a lot of such competitions. Many participants on T-shirts have written - run2fourty2. This translates as - run 42, where 42 is the length of the marathon. The guys are just preparing for the marathon, and this competition is a small control stage of their preparatory process. Marathons are held here a couple of times a year, and for six months those who wish can enroll in a paid training group, where experienced trainers will train them in this difficult matter. I decided for myself that, probably, I won’t even master the half marathon yet - I need to seriously prepare. Such things. even the half marathon until I master it - we must seriously prepare. Such things. even the half marathon until I master it - we must seriously prepare.
Such things.