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Despite the fact that almost four years have passed since this start, and I even briefly mentioned it in one of the weekly reports, Still, I want to write a couple of words for educational and instructive purposes.
So, the Egmond Half Marathon of 2020. Traditionally one of the main mass winter starts in the Netherlands:
I already participated in it 2016 year. I really liked it.
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I owe an indecent number of reports already, I’ll start with the last race - Mizuno Amsterdam Half Marathon.
A couple of weeks before the event, a colleague in a running club in Wotsapa and during training tried to find those who wanted to participate in his business team. I really wanted to, but that weekend my family and I, sort of, had to go on vacation.
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I will temporarily skip the report about one race and immediately tell you about Tata Steel Marquetteloop.
Being in good shape after Leiden half marathon decided not to put off in a long box and try to run another half marathon in the hope of approaching a little more to 80 minutes. Marquetteloop has been on my list for several years to participate, club colleagues spoke very positively - a flat track, 3 laps of 7 km, a good composition of participants, but not very crowded.
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Well, about Leiden Half Marathon.
After a pretty successful half marathon Stevensloop, which I ran without much preparation with the new PB 1:23:31, improving the previous result for as long as 45 seconds, it is time to start implementing the long-term plan - a half marathon of 80 minutes. After resting for a week, I began to gain volumes. At first, out of the corner of my eye, I looked into the training plan of the DD, but then I thought that the volumes of + a few high-quality trainings per week would definitely kill me, so I decided to focus only on volume.
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I have long wanted to participate in this race and registered last October, intending to carefully prepare and run to PB. After that, however, he became interested in autumn crosses smoothly flowing into winter crosses, so that the planned preparation did not work. More precisely, by the time of the start, it was far from the best shape. Shortly before the start, he canceled his participation in the Enschede marathon and there were thoughts to even cancel the registration for this race, because the car was under repair at that time, and it was necessary to go to the other end of the country, but in the end I decided that the half marathon will not kill me, the well-being run, who knows, a miracle can happen, I can keep the average pace faster than 4:00 min / km and improve my PB ( 1:24:16 ).
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Egmond Halve Marathon is one of the largest cross-country events in Holland. Registered on October 21, 2015 immediately after marathon in Amsterdam. As I thought, in January I had to be in the process of preparing for the marathon in Hanover, and a competitive half marathon would be a great checkpoint. It happened. True, I didn’t overpower Jack Daniels again for the start of preparation, so I chose sub 3:10 from the adidas miCoach website as a plan.
