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10km city nachtlauf

August 2, 2008 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Decided to jump in this race since I heard it was fun. It wasn't to hot out I thought before, but it was muggy a little and I sweat a lot. The race started at 8:30. I skipped everyone at the start line because they were all so slow. There were like 5000 people lined up, and only about 4 or 5 rows of people for times under 35 or 36, so it was fun to skip them at the start. I found people from the track club at the start and lined up with them. The route started at the Gedaechtnis Kirche and headed west along the Kudamm, then turned right and right again, heading back the opposite way, for like the first 5 or 6 km and then we went past the start again, back out west on Kudamm and turned around 180 degrees the left and headed back to the Gedaechtnis Kirche. It was cool that it started at twilight and then was sort of dark by the time we ended.

I headed out with Arne and we stayed pretty consistent, hitting 3:20s or so every kilometer. We wanted to run under 34, so that he could pr. We really helped keep each other in the race and sometimes I or he would fall behind but then catch back up. We were always passing people to, I don't think we got passed once so that was great. Would have been good to negative split but those km from like 6-8 were hard. I stayed pretty comfortably within myself and felt like a long long fast run. I haven't raced in awhile and it wasn't that bad, so it was a good workout and good first 10km race ever. I would have liked to run under 30 mins, but it just wasn't my day. Maybe next time. Finished strong. Will have to look up my time and place later. Otherwise it was a really fun race and a nice goodbye Germany run, my Abschiedslauf.