Best 10 km race - Ruitenburg Run Maasdijk 2022
Disclaimer: Automatically translated from Russian
This year, after a two-year break, a 10 km race was again held in Maasdijk. I have already taken part in it twice: in 2017 and 2019 years. Both times returned with personal records. The latter (36:24) still holds on. There were no chances of improving the larva this time, but there was no desire to go to participate, and what else. For some reason, I really like this relatively small race. Some kind of special atmosphere there. And the track — you can’t imagine better.
Not registered in advance, since was not sure, that I will generally be able to run on the appointed day. Getting up on Saturday morning July 16 and listening to the body, I decided that all systems work normally — you can run. The start is late, at 13:30 — enough time to eat, get together, get there and register.
The day turned out to be sunny, pretty hot, + 22 degrees. Without much wind. But we should not forget that a significant part of the circle (the — two practically square circles) passes through the dam, and there it usually blows harder.
Arrived. Registered. The people are getting ready: they are fixing numbers, warming up.
For the sake of interest, I looked into the watch to see how much they would appreciate my current form. 41 minutes, pessimistic. Check it out.
I decided to run, of course, in the recently acquired Saucony Endorphin Speed 2. He put a cap on his head, carefully bathed it in cold water. I also took a Salomon bottle: I don’t plan to particularly tear, so that an extra hundred grams of weather will not do, but it can help alleviate suffering if they still start.
I warm myself up a kilometer. Again I urinate the headgear (he already managed to dry out) and head to the start.
There are a lot of people. Familiar faces come across. I don’t climb into the front rows. Shot, ran. On the mats of the meat grinder — some girl fell and a man who stumbled over her. I managed not to cling. Well, let’s go.
My number is 187
The start is common at two distances — 5 and 10 km. Some guys are tearing forward. Looking at the overtaking numbers — for the top ten so carried? Respect. There is no crowd on the second kilometer. Just run out onto the dam. Several groups formed. I’m running in one of them, closer to my head. The breeze blows. For a while I hold on to the second or third, but then I decide to go out a little story.
Running normally. In such a working, to the best of a difficult but controlled regime, without suffering. Pulse 168.
Before the start of the second round, the group fell apart. Number 99 has gone forward (somehow I completely missed this point). Part of the people ran to finish their five. After some time I’m catching up with an unknown dude. First we stick together, then I leave forward. I’m trying to navigate the claps of the audience if there is anyone behind. It seems clean. The pace is approximately 3:50 min / km.
On the seventh kilometer I catch up with numbers 99 and sit down behind it. His pace is a little slower, plus, apparently, feeling the tail, he slowed down a little more. Having run a hundred and fifty meters, I decide to overtake. Dude immediately gets in touch with me. I run over to the other side of the — road sitting tight. Two hundred meters later there should be a power point. There is an idea to try to throw it there. And then I’ll take him one and a half kilometers to the finish line, and he will kick my ass at the last moment.
I slow down to the pace of 4:05. I take a bottle of water, drink, pour water on a cap from a high height, so that more sprayed through the visor. A small lift begins. About forty meters ahead is someone in a green T-shirt. I decide to take a chance. I accelerate to a pace of 3:20, catch up and adjust from the leeward side. Out of the corner of my eye I look back — number 99 did not support my move. Thirty meters later, resting, I am leaving forward. Green, it seems, was not averse to helping a little, even wished good luck.
One and a half kilometers to the finish line. Now the main thing is not to blown away and not to let 99 eat me, dude is clearly in good shape. I’m running.
Ahead, someone else looms in an orange T-shirt, but the distance is very large, do not play. Well, okay. Finishing.
Net time — 38:24. 38th of 250 in the overall standings, 7th of 24 in the M40 category.
The result is noticeably worse than before, both in time and position. But still very happy: it was without suffering, and played tactical games. Split turned out to be positive, almost half a minute.
He walked around, drank water, ate oranges, bananas, watched a children’s start. They traditionally have some holidays on this square these days, so many people, carousels, cyclists stop drinking beer. Beauty.
Traditionally issued a free T-shirt. This time a little crazy, but jubilee.
He escaped to change clothes and returned to watch the reward. And then I decided to get to Hoek van Holland, see what it is. There also wound a dozen along the beach.
This is the trip.
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