first "long run" for marathon

2° celsius. clear and slightly windy. 10:06 (2:01:56)

i overslept today. woke up slightly late and had to rush to stadtpark - the meeting point. everybody was already there during the briefing, discussing the route of where and which tempo should be run. i was still in the car, fumbling over my gloves and water bottle. they ran passed me and i could see new faces in this marathon training.

the rest was about 1.3 km ahead when i finally caught up with them. i had to run slightly faster and could then settle down with the slower group who was running in 6:30 min/km tempo. it didn't last that very long and i joined the 6 min/km group after 3 km from my starting point and found my rhythm there.

the weather was quite okay. not that windy as the past days. the alstertal are swarmed with joggers and groups of runners, who were most likely preparing themselves for the coming marathon in april.

the other two faster groups were already gone when i joined my group. i realised that now there were the 5:30 and 5 or 5:15 group (i don't know cos i wasn't there right from the very beginning). after 1 hour, all of us must make a u-turn. our group did this as were high on top of the hill and coming down wasn't that easy for me cos i had to stop myself constantly. due to this arrangement, all of us ended up the same time and the final destination and had our warming down session together.

alsteration (week 5) : 52.303 km
alstering : 14.660 km
non-alstering : 37.643 km

total running (february) : 20.170 km
davon
alstering : 0.000 km
0.00% gehört zu alsteration