New 10k Time!!

See my run at http://go.nike.com/a4trjju



Today I ran the first of the Nike Marathon Tests :-) It was 10k.

I beat my old 10k time by 6 seconds!! My new PB for 10k is 54 miuntes and 45 seconds.
My old 10k time I got in October in perfect running conditions. Today was cold and windy at times so I confident I can improve more when it's springtime.

The race was a 10k route around Østerbro and a little bit in Fælledparken.

I started by running with the 5:40 group but they took off a little too fast for me and by 3k I was trailing way behind them but still infront of the 5:50 group. At 5.5k there was the water depot so I stopped for a couple of seconds and had some Powerade. As usual this gave me the boost I needed :-)

I started speeding up slowly from this point and by the 8k mark I was running between 5:18 and 5:20. At 9k I had caught up with the pacesetters for the 5:40 group and by 9.5k I was ahead of them. With 300 metres to go I started sprinting as normal. I was very tired when I crossed the line!

It was a great race and I'm now looking forward to running the 15k in March :-)

Marathon Start Op Diploma

RESULTATBEVIS

1543 , Lynne-Deanne Knightley,

Tillykke med din præstation

Distance: 15 km

Nettotid : 01:24:13

Placering M/K: 93

Placering samlet: 390

Runde 1: 00:27:53

Runde 2: 00:28:28

Runde 3: 00:27:52

Med venlig hilsen

Sparta, Powerade, Marathon Sport og Nike

Copenhagen Marathon Start Op 15km

GOAL NUMBER 3 = COMPLETED!!!  :-)

I ran this morning in the marathon start op and ran 15km in 1 hour, 24 minutes and 13 seconds (official time)!
I was aiming for around 27/28 minutes so am really pleased with this time. Oh and my knee wasn't hurting at all. I did take 2 ibrufen tablets before the race though, just in case.

It was 3 times around Fælledparken on Østerbro and there were pace setters that you could follow. I ran either a little ahead or a little behind the 5.40 ones all the time.

It was a fantastic race and the day couldn't have been better! No wind! No rain! No sun! Just a very cloudy sky. The leaves were falling or had fallen from the trees and the smell of Autumn was in the air :)

15 minutes before the race I took a High5 energy gel to wake me up a little.

Me in the distance on the very left hand side of the photo

The first 5km was pretty easy and I decided not to have any water and just keep running when I had gone round once. There were way too many people at the water depot anyway. The second time round was much harder, probably because I stop for a drink!
At 10km I had some water and also some Powerade which gave me a great boost for kilometres 11 and 12.

At 13km my pace becan to slow down so I took a SIS energy gel and managed to finish the 15km on a high!!

Another great race by Sparta :)

Sparta Copenhagen Marathon Website

The new Copenhagen Marathon 2011 website is up and running!!

It can be found at http://www.copenhagenmarathon.dk/

I think it's a big improvement on the old one :)

Marathon Start Up

And so I've signed up for the Sparta Marathon Start Up!

It cost 270kr which is pretty expensive but I still decided to sign up for it because there are no other 15km races in Copenhagen until the end of December and I need to do one to achieve my next goal.

I do get a nike running vest in with the price though so it's not that bad :)

The run is around Fælledparken. It's a 5km course and you can run it once, twice or three times. You can decide on the day what you want to do. I'm going for the 15km!

I'm having a rest day today and then probably a short run in the morning both on Tuesday and Wednesday

The Wind Just Keeps On Blowing!

I ran just over 5km today and no matter which direction I ran in it seemed like I was always running into the wind!

I've borrowed a baby jogger from my friend for a couple of days so I can try it out before I buy one myself.
I will be running my older son to school with the little one in the jogger for the next couple of mornings. My older son will, of course, be on his bike :)

I'm thinking about signing up for the marathon start up on 31st October. If I do, I'll run 15km in it!

New Copenhagen Marathon 2011 Website Coming Soon

This is the news from Sparta's website regarding Copenhagen Marathon 2011 new website.
I have translated it to English for you:- (The danish version is below this)

NEW COPENHAGENMARATHON.DK COMING SOON


Together with Nykredit, in a few weeks times we are launching a completely new site on copenhagenmarathon.dk. Because of this we have down prioritised the updating of the old site so we can work more efficiently on the new.

We are looking forward to welcoming the runs many participants and other people with marathon interests to a new and better site.

On top of this, we are also working on a new administration system and server updating for the coming season. This wil give us a better and more reliable solution regarding result viewing, diploma printouts, live viewing etc.

NYT COPENHAGENMARATHON.DK I VENTE
Da vi i samarbejde med Nykredit i løbet af få uger lancerer et helt nyt site på copenhagenmarathon.dk, er opdatering af det gamle site blevet nedprioriteret i en periode, for at kunne satse fuldt ud på det nye.
Vi glæder os til at kunne bydes løbets mange deltagere og andre maraton-interesserede velkommen til et nyt og forbedret site.

Derudover arbejder vi på et nyt administrationssystem og serveropdatering, der i kommende sæson, vil give os en bedre og mere driftsikker løsning mht. resultatvisning, diplomudskrift, live-visning m.m.