30. Engadiner Sommerlauf 2009: 27km – 1:34:11h (2nd place)

September 7, 2009

After two weeks of altitude training I ran the 30th edition of the Engadiner Sommerlauf from Sils to Bever on 23th of August 2009. As I was staying in St.Moritz, i.e. between the two towns of Sils and Bever it was a nice way to get some good training kilometres in some kind of race atmosphere. Way better than running alone.
The first 15km of the course were a bit hilly and after 15km the highest point of the course was reached, so I decided to run a controlled pace until this point and run a bit harder for the last part. This “tactic” turned out to be very good and I could really hold the pace high between kilometres 15 and 25. I also caught several guys on the flat part – at km I was in 5th place with a gap of approx. 90 seconds to 4th and in the end I was 2nd, only half a minute behind the eventual winner. If the race would have been a bit longer I might even have had the chance to win the race but after all it was a bit to short to catch the leader and on the last 2 km I didn’t push too hard because there were still 2 weeks of tough altitude training ahead of me.