Race aborted...
Damn, I've been unlucky!
I have been preparing a lot for this 5000, a race that I really like because it is night and the temperature is cool enough to have good performance... in fact, it has been in this circuit where I have achieved my best times in recent years in this category, 17'11" was the last of them more than 3 years ago...
Everything was going well, the quality training sessions were great, I was planning to do a competition in progression, starting conservatively so as not to go over the line and progress from km 2, from less to more... my goal was to obtain a record for under 19'...
But...
Suddenly, just 50 minutes before the start of the race, my son, who was spending the weekend at a friend's house, called me on the phone telling me to go look for him because he had a fever and was vomiting...
My wife is out of my reach so I had to abort the race and go look for my son, still wearing the competition shirt, my racing shoes and the bib on...
Total frustration...
My son is at home and although he is improving and sleeping after the dose of fever reducers, the whole case has been a good scare... I hope it's nothing. Let's see how he wakes up tomorrow because I think he's going to sleep all night...
Regarding the race, well, nothing, 15 Euros lost... I'll have to find another opportunity...
The important is...
Keep on running!
Omg, that's bad! Too bad to hear you had to cancel your race before even starting... still, you did what was right! After that call, your mind wouldn't have been on the race even if you decided to run it anyways!
That's the most beautiful thing about running... there's always a brand new opportunity!! Next time you're going to crush it, no doubts about it!! :)
Hope so
What a shame. I hope you son is okay. There will be more races.
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That sucks and is disappointing but I would do the same, family first.
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Dann bad luck. 17'11"?!?!? Is that homologated!? You've got the distance on your watch? That's damn quick mate! How you're sun gets well soon... !LUV
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yes, it's a homologated 5k race, but I'm far from that shape
I've never been running that quick over a 5km! How old were you when you were doing this?
That was 5 years ago, I was 42 and it was a race over an athletic track in Badalona.
On November 2018 I did 17'27" my last best 5K at Jean Bouin of BCN
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According to what I see in your posts, your times in 1000 intervals are pretty good, you are not far from 18' or even less on 5K if you do specific training for that.
18'20" but will need to start to run the intervals about 15-20 seconds faster and reduce rest time to 1 minute. (And I can't do that on my own + the guys I'm running with can't run at this rhythm atm)
That will go at cost of endurance obviously and will increase the risk on injuries. I already felt a warning with the controlled 10x 200m from last Friday... :-(
20" a km is a lot
I know.... It's too much and recently I get injured when I start with velocity. The same last year in May :-(
Yep I completely understand and hope you get another chance to race soon. I hope your son is doing ok as well
there's always gonna be another race. Humans on the other hand are harder to replace :)
Hope your son gets well soon.
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Espero que millori aviat i sols sigui un ensurt
Well it was for the most justifiable reason ever that you pulled out. There will be others, not too worry