{"id":1133,"date":"2019-06-05T00:12:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T07:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2019-06-05T00:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T07:12:58","slug":"flughafenlauf-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/archives\/1133","title":{"rendered":"Flughafenlauf 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Flughafenlauf is a nice race where you ran around the airport. (as the German name indicates). In preparation for Gigathlon, this would be another test to see where I’m at fitness-wise. However to keep it fun I decided to go back to the basics and just run by feeling. Last year I ran it in 1:28:00. A 5min\/km pace would result in a 1:25:00 and a 4:30min\/km would be 1:16:30 which would be a really nice goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I started the race I only glanced at my watch 2 times on the first kilometer to make sure that I don’t start too fast. I was around a 4:20min\/km pace. Which seemed a little fast. But I felt great \ud83d\ude42 Note: A couple weeks earlier at the GP D\u00fcbendorf I ran 10km in 4:28min\/km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was surprised that so many people passed me in the early part of the race. I was also wondering how many of them I would catch later on. Around 2k I settled in behind a guy which ran a decent pace. He was running a little faster pace than most people and we started passing people. I really focused on just enjoying the experience, not just on the outcome (meaning result). I actually felt great. We were running at a decent pace (by feeling) and I focused on enjoying the surrounding (nice day) and spending as little energy as possible to follow the guy in front of me. While the person in front of me had a nice pace, he really needs to learn to ran tangents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around km 9 there was an uphill and I appreciated that the guy in front of me slowed down and adjusted the pace accordingly. On the downhill I went faster and left my pacer behind. However I soon found another person coming from behind which I followed. So far I still had resisted at looking at the watch. I kinda knew\/hoped I was running faster than 5min\/km but didn’t know how much faster. I noticed that I was getting tired and focused on conserving my energy and not letting up from the guy in front of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we had 5km to go I calculated how much longer I had to run in my head. Assuming a 5min\/km 25min and 4:00min\/km only 20min. I assume I was somewhere in between. It got harder and harder to follow the guy in front of me. Again my race experience kicked in and I managed to keep up with the guy for much longer. My brain certainly was tired because once in a while I forgot what the last kilometer marker was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier there was another race on a similar course with the same ending which was 7.5km long and had the same finish. So when I saw a 5km marker I knew it was only 2.5km to the finish. From the US I’m used to miles when running. Here I had marker for every 0.5km based on my race and with some math from the earlier race. Still the 0.5 marker seemed too far apart \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I came closer to the finish I couldn’t believe when the announcer said something about 1:10:00. While it took a while longer to get there, I just focused on getting over the line and finishing it. Had I known that I was 1.2 seconds from sub 1:12:00 I might have pushed a little harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With about 100m to go… Luckily Amy was already at the finish line even though I said I wouldn’t be that fast \ud83d\ude42
While it might look I’m smiling… believe me I’m not \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was pretty destroyed afterwards. But the experience was great and yet another confidence boost. Compared to last year I ran 16min faster! I’m looking forward to my next race which is Gigathlon. Unless I decided to do another practice race \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My average pace was 4:14min\/km which I’m super please with.
35th (out of 182 ) in my age group and 108th (out of 694) of all male runners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Flughafenlauf is a nice race where you ran around the airport. (as the German name indicates). In preparation for Gigathlon, this would be another test to see where I’m at fitness-wise. However to keep it fun I decided to go back to the basics and just run by feeling. Last year I ran it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zgraggen.name\/racing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}