Mixed feelings. It was my personal best, the leg was ok, and the race overall for the first 8K or so. Speed was flat and no big surprises anywhere. I didn’t feel tired towards the end. Weather was ok, though sunny.<\/p>\n
The clear if<\/i> came after 8K: pretty similar stomach pain I had in the first marathon attempt last fall. I kind of came in two parts the last five laps. I’m pretty sure I could have done them 5-10 secs quicker, stomach being ok. More unclear if<\/i> was my decision to do constant 3.20-3.22 Ks from the beginning. A group of 5 or so runners started with quite constant 3.18 speed but I decided to run on my own. Maybe I should have joined them. I thought the weather was too hot for even trying, but … what the hell. I should have, could have… damn!<\/p>\n
On one hand it feels like I should try 10Ks on track one more time this year. This is a clearly inferior result compared to the 5K. There is an option some ten days from now in Tampere. On the other hand – and this is more realistic – it was my personal best and I was just maybe that 15-20 secs from the optimum at the moment. Face it – the next big thing is the marathon. I can do sub 33-minute 10K on track anytime afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mixed feelings. It was my personal best, the leg was ok, and the race overall for the first 8K or so. Speed was flat and no big surprises anywhere. I didn’t feel tired towards the end. Weather was ok, though sunny. The clear if came after 8K: pretty similar stomach pain I had in the … Continue reading “10000m in 33.44,01”<\/span><\/a><\/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-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}