#einstein

That’s what it looked like — unfortunately, it stayed rather close to this for the first few kilometers. I took over whenever possible, but I couldn’t find my rhythm (how should I, going 5:45 in a spot, 4:15 a few meters on, then back to 5:25, then 4:27…) These masses of people aren’t for me. I was completely stressed out by these huge amounts of people. My heart rate stayed at around 180-195. My usual heart rate is ~130-140, 155 when I really push it hard. #running #einstein #marathon #ulm

Final results are in: Of 928 male runners, I was 183rd. And of 59 male runners in my age bracket (50+), I ended up seventh. That’s quite good, way better than I felt when I reached the end of the run. (My Ice Cubes app has crashed three times when I tried to add ALT text to the pics, so I’ll just let it be for now…) #einstein #marathon #ulm #running

In the end, that’s what I ended up with. I’m not really happy with it, having run my own private marathons with 3:25 and 3:27 this year. But it helped me in that way that I’m not going to do any more of these public runs. There’s not much fun in #running when you’re in a mass of people for the first ~16 or ~18 kilometers (I just can’t remember when they split off the half marathon…). #running #einstein #marathon #ulm #coros #apex4

Last run before the #Einstein #Marathon in #Ulm is done, and it went very well. That might be attributed to a good night’s sleep (only interrupted for ~30 minutes, I had to get my wife from the train station at 3:30am) and one week of almost only 10K runs. So, let’s see what I can do tomorrow. You’ll get pics, but not *during* the run. #running #coros #apex4