\n
![](\"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/pics\/karhu_2008.jpg\"\/)
\n
\nPicture: Jarno Maimonen<\/i>
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nLast year I did perhaps my best run of the season in Karhu-viesti running the last leg in 30.14.<\/a> This year I ran 8 secs slower, but that is not the issue I have with my run today. The issue is I lost the fucking race!<\/i><\/p>\n Our team had done an excellent race that far and I was given a 5 secs lead over Mikko Virta. I lead the first 2Ks or so with Virta close behind. I think we were running something like 3.10-3.15\/km. Then I let him fight the wind and I think the pace slowed down to c. 3.20\/km. It felt easy. I tried to attack midway after 15 mins of running. I did two times c. 500 meters sprint with the strongest headwind possible but Virta was like a stamp on my back. I thought if I could have a 5 meter gap that would do it in that wind. But I couldn’t.<\/p>\n After those sprints my game was basically over. Also my speed slowed down, perhaps close to 3.20\/km. I continued to lead anyway, hoping that Virta would phase out or something. That never happened. Virta passed me 500 meters to the finishing line and I had practically nothing to give. I did not sprint at the end. I was both physically and mentally done.<\/p>\n I am ok with my time. It was strong headwind at times and, overall, most runners were far behind their best times today. I also think I ran stronger today than a year ago. I was able to change my pace as I wanted. Unfortunately that was not enough.<\/p>\n Here are two messy low-res Quicktime vids by Jyrki Repola of my run: vid 1<\/a> and vid 2.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Picture: Jarno Maimonen Last year I did perhaps my best run of the season in Karhu-viesti running the last leg in 30.14. This year I ran 8 secs slower, but that is not the issue I have with my run today. The issue is I lost the fucking race! Our team had done an excellent … Continue reading “Karhu-viesti 30.22 – mixed feelings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}