first form test successful! 1:17:46

At the end of my three-week training block, I was at the start of the 21.1km Obermain Half Marathon today. The last few days have been quite exhausting and luckily we were invited to a party with Denise and Thorsten yesterday evening, where I was able to cram some real carbohydrates into myself for the morning run 😉

In the morning, shortly after seven, we drove off with the car to arrive at around 8 o'clock in the freezing cold (4 degrees) Bad Staffelstein. Fortunately, shortly before I died of coldness in my little running shirt, it started at 8:45 am with over 1000 starters. All of a sudden, we were all warm up very quickly! With horror I had to realize that we started the first few kilometers far too fast, about 3:30 pace. Then I had to slow down the young wild Frank, with whom I ran together.

Shortly afterwards the fog finally disappeared and gave way to a wonderful sunny day. So at least I didn't take my sunglasses with me for nothing. At km 10 we went through in 36:59, about one minute below plan. At the latest there I had to find out, "Krelli, you're in a good mood today" 😉

Frank unfortunately had to tear something off and I was on my own. At 15 km I had a little sag, my stomach rumbled a bit. It was probably the three servings of chili con carne at the party last night ...
After a little sip of Coke I was able to keep up the pace for the last few kilometers and finish in 13th with a new best time of 1:17:46, I even think I was the fastest tria 😉
(my old HM best time from last year was 1:23:08)

Overjoyed, I waited in the finish channel for Frank, who, however, shouldn't disappoint me and finished the race directly after me with 1:19:30!

Incidentally, the first was the 2007 German marathon champion, Phillip Büttner (Ratz), at 2:20 hours.
The way it went crazy today, I only saw him at the start for 2 seconds, then he was over the mountains, in the end he was almost in the shower when I rolled in, his winning time yesterday 1: 09 ...

It was really cool that my friend even stood on her crutches on the side of the road to cheer and two club colleagues from the Bamberg TriRockets also gave a lot of help.

a detailed race report, including some funny anecdotes from yesterday, can be found here tri-mag.de:

http://www.tri-mag.de/index.php/2224.html

After a great lunch and a little nap, I cycled the 3.5 hour long way back to Nuremberg.
Now put your feet up for a few days and chill and on April 26th. at the start of the Sulzbach / Rosenberg Duathlon !!

refresh yourself well!

krelli