Sport

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Edzés ideje

01:36:24

Távolság

21.2 km

Tempó

04:33 p/km (13.20 km/h)

Edzésleírás

So my first road half-marathon since living in Hungary. It was called the "vizkerestes" (no idea why) and there was also a marathon. Yolanda also ran her first half-marathon. She had hoped to get on the podium, but ended up 4th. First and second were 2 women from Poland. The first woman looked like a proper runner - she was standing in front of us at the start. She started off fast and during the first half I was slowly closing on her. I don't know what happened at the turn around but the gap widened very quickly, but, unbeknown to me I must have been catching her up towards the end as she wasn't that far in front at the end. There were 69 runners in the half-marathon , 15 of them women. I was 18th overall. I saw patyalso at the starting line and I thought "fuck", but, surprise surprise" I beat him by more than a minute and a half. He started off faster than me but I slowly caught him up, before the 5 km mark I think and that was it. After maybe the 5 km mark I was overtaken by a total of 3 people. I going out, 1 immediately after the turn round, and one maybe 5 kms from home. That guy I might have been able to pull back if it hadn't been wearing those special glasses. They're a disaster for running and at one point I could hardly see and I tried running without them on. We had the wind behind us going out and my time at 5 kms was 20.23. Oops! At 10 it was 42 something and at the half way point 45.20 something. Going back the way we had come, the wind wasn't easy for me, but, thank God, the last 3 kms we changed direction and the wind was no problem. We got Guylas, pancakes, coffee and 'cofola". All in the price of 1,500 fts. There was one man in my age category who was faster than me. During the 2nd half it starting snowing a bit. I'm not displeased with my average of 4.33, 13.20 kph. Wore my usual running clothes except that I wore my cycling gloves and those I took off pretty soon. 15kph wind. Great shower afterwards. The marathon runners went the same way and at our turn round the leading marathon runner was beating the whole half-marathon field and his final time was maybe 2.45, a new course record, just! It was actually 2.44.55. I had been told Fridman was 3rd, but it turned out he was 3rd, but only in the under 40 age-group, and he was 8th overall. Yolanda was 29th In the half-marathon. There were 3 Polish and 18 Hungarians in the half-marathon. There were 64 runners in the marathon - 1 Polish,4 Czech,19 Hungarians and 1 DNF. I runner overtook Fridman after 21.5 kms whilst he overtook 7 runners. He was one of the runners whose 2nd half was faster than his 1st which is fantastic if you consider the headwind in the 2nd half. I found out the logic of the name - Jan 6th is Epiphany - Vizkeresztes in Hungarian.