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Westspangenlauf Half Marathon

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Location:

Neunkirchen,Germany

Member Since:

Jan 23, 2018

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Marathons:

Merzig (04/09/05): 3:56:41

Cologne (05/09/11): 3:26:16

Frankfurt (07/10/28): 3:17:16

Essen (09/09/11): 3:23:34

Frankfurt (18/10/28): 3:16:46

Ulm (19/09/29): 3:11:53

Personal Bests:

10k 37:24 (2009)

HM 1:23:42 (2009)

M 3:11:53 (2019)

Short-Term Running Goals:

  • 5k < 19:00
  • 10k < 39:00

Long-Term Running Goals:

Marathon < 3:00

improve my 10k and HM-PB

Personal:

married, two children, born 1981, 40 hours-a-week-job in a local townhall

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Race: Westspangenlauf Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:29:14, Place overall: 30, Place in age division: 7
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.420.0013.100.0016.52

2,5 k warm-up

Westspangenlauf-Half Marathon in 1:29:14 hrs. Plan was to run sub 1:30, so 3:15 hrs in 3 weeks for the Frankfurt-Marathon should be realistic. Ran with an 64 old runner who also ran sub 1:30, amazing! Practiced a lot with nutrition, shoes and drinking in the race. Therefore it was a great test! Perfect weather conditions (57 degress, sunshine and a little wind) and only a few parts that were harder to run: 2 bridges and one turning point. But, I felt that I did (for me) a lot of mileage the last months and weeks. The last 4 miles my legs really hurt a lot...not bad for the first half marathon in 10 years!

5k-splits:

21:00

21:16 (10k 42:16)

21:08 (15k 63:24)

21:11 (20k 1:24:35, 2nd 10k 42:19)

3 k cool-down on angry legs...

Comments
From jtshad on Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 16:10:58 from 65.129.149.162

Nice race, first HM in 10 years, impressive time!

From Martin on Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 13:12:51 from 62.226.78.160

Thanks!

From Rhett on Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 13:39:38 from 99.203.5.98

Great job Martin! You nailed that tune up race. I bet you go sub 3:10 in November.

From Martin on Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 15:12:44 from 87.161.167.171

I will stick to my plan to run 3:15 at least until 30 km. So it will be impossible to run sub 3:10 at that day, I'm sorry! 😉

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