1/2-hour run Zwickau (3rd run of the series): 9350m (1st place)

June 24, 2009

After a competition-free weekend with several birthday celebrations in my family I competed in a half-hour run on the track in my home town Zwickau. The result of 9350m is a new record for me and at the same time a result that was the best in the last decade in this series of competitions that consists of 5 runs per year. I only covered more than 9000m in 30 minutes once in my life before – it was some 6 or 7 years back when I just dipped over 9km, running something like 9025m or so.

Considering the pretty tough training of the last 10days I’m satisfied with the results. My legs were still a bit tired from the tempo runs on monday (4x 850/1700m) and the legs didn’t respond too well when I wanted to push a bit harder. Anyway, I stayed pretty relaxed because in the next couple of days I will have some more competitions: Tomorrow (thursday) a corporate run in Zwickau and on Saturday a cross-country-like 10K a bit further away.