Objective 2010

First, I would like to state that from now on, this blog is going to be in English – some of my running buddies are not necessarily fluent in Danish (even though we try to teach them), so I thought they should have a chance to read my blog.

After the 6 hours endurance I felt de-motivated for about 3 weeks - I could not find any motivation in running, and the few training passes I had, was mainly with friends (Thank you Peer and Claus!).

But today I found the objective for 2010: I want to set a new PR on marathon. The main attempt will be in May in Copenhagen – I know they have planned a new course which is normally for me not a good thing (I always want to know how far to the goal line). But I usually feel were well in this race – the weather is normally not too warm and the “short streets” makes it easy to run to the next corner and then go on..

I found the objective today when I ran Odense Nytårsløb (New Year race) – a 10K race in the middle of Odense. My prep has for obvious reasons not been optimal – I felt slow because of the many kilometers from the endurance race. On the day the course was icy, the temp was below 0C and I didn’t feel that good (probably too much food over Christmas)

But the 1K I did in 4min, then next in 3:45 which really surprised me, as I had not run any training kilometers in this pace. I had a little problem at 4K where the course became very slippery and there was a lot of snow (and I got a little tired) where I ran 4:23. But else I managed to run the remaining kilometers around 4:10-4:15 and finished in 40:56. 5 seconds from my PR of 40:51. Surprise!!

It was a real motivator to lock the objective of 2010 to be a new PR on marathon. The first sub-goal is run at least a new PR (preferably under 40 mins) at Nike Marathon Test 1 in Copenhagen on Feb 7th (10K)

And then run both Nike Marathon Test 2 +3 (15K and 21.1K) and BT Halv-marathon (21.1K). And in one of the ½MTs try to get in at around 1h25m – optimistic goals, but I think I need to do that and loose approx 5 kg to get to a stage where it is possible to beat my own PR.