37. Silvesterlauf Erfurt: 10km – 34:26min (9th place)

January 2, 2011

The last race of the year was a mirror of the last year: Mostly slipping around, not being able to go full speed and not showing the work from the training. But never mind, the race was only training and it’s not the end of the world. The conditions were really bad with icy, uneven ground and several curves plus lapping several runners on a small path.

Our whole training group (Fabian, Falk and me) had a disadvantag already before the start because we had no spikes and the competitors (the first 4 places) were all better prepared in terms of shoe choice.  Since it was pretty dangerous to fall or to twist one’s ankle, I decided already early in the race to go out carefully. I pushed only on the uphill part, where the underground was not as bad as on the other part.

Results published here already.