Today was the day. I had rest on Sunday, I jogged 30mins yesterday and I was ready to tackle the race.
I knew it was gonna be hard. My record was 54m 16s. Was I gonna be able to beat it? The average speed was 3m 52s/km. Very fast. I thought I was ready to make it under 54mins but it was gonna be hard.
I dressed up listening to I gotta feeling(the black eye peas) and viva la vida (coldplay). Before I left I wanted to know what the time would need to be to finish the run at a pace of 3m45s/km (16km/h) ufff the answer was scaring 52mins 30 secs, too fast I can't make it, 1min 45secs faster than my record, oh my god, it would be making the 1st checkpoint at 10m30s, 2nd checkpoint 31m30s and ending in 52mins 30secs, hard but I could give it a shot.
I start to run, I am feeling good and fast, I head the river I have nose wind, damn, although I acknowledge it, it doesn't bother me too much. I arrive at the 1st checkpoint 10m37s (at that point I thought I was only 1s faster, although I was 11s faster, but 7s behind the wonder time), but it is OK I had nose wind and it is the 1st checkpoint, which I am always slow, let's keep it up. I keep on checking the time and I still feel fast and the stopwatch says so too. I keep running, faster, and it looks like I am doing it. I get to the 2nd checkpoint and oh my god I am only 2 seconds behind schedule (31m32s, with tail wind), i had never broken the 32m milestone. I start to feel tired but I can keep going. I have nose wind again that is a draw back but it doesn't matter, hehe. I keep it up and I head back. Before I leave the river I check the time once again and I feel like I am going 13s slower but I was almost 2 minutes faster than my fastest time, so it was OK to beat my record anyway.
Last meters, I try to run faster but I can't and I know I need to keep a little energy for the end, at this moment I already know I'll do my record but I don't know if I'll stop the stopwatch before 52m30s. I sprint as fast as I can, I started to early I am running out of energy, I slow down the last 50m but oh my god! I reach the pizza place in 52m12s!!!!! I dropped my record by more than 2minutes!!!!! yuhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did it, I have run 14km in less than 52m30s it means I averaged 16km/h!!!!!! 3m45s awesome!!!
I am very happy.
Pd: I still feel my heel and my shin
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