Finally, it’s 3rd Oct, the big day to run for a flower!
Wife wants to take the baby and go with me to give me an extra support, that’s great!
We set off quite early and after 30 minutes’ walk, we were at the starting point, already many people there, some were jogging to warm up. I changed and did some warm up too then it’s time to kiss goodbye my wife and my little Pierre.
5 minutes before set off, I entered the starting section, it seemed that I was almost at the very end of the 200 meters of people! But no problem, I’m not running for the first prize :D
It’s a surprise that I met several friends there, great to know that they run also.
Finally, a great shout of thousands of people announced the start of the run! I tried to keep my pace and at the same time adapt to that of the others so I ran not too fast nor too slow.
The first three kilometers are just wonderful, along the beach, the sun was not too strong and there was no sweat. Although it was my slowest at the 2.5 Km, it’s just because we started to go up to the hill. After that, we went down from the hill for about another 2.5Km. This is the most wonderful part, we have the sea right before us and the road here is wide so we have large space between each and most important, there came the fresh wind from the sea! Really enjoyed this part.
After 7Km, we started to go up again, and that is really hard to keep the pace! Many people were along the road, smelling, yelling, encouraging the runners. then finally, at the top of the small hill, there is the arrival point 300 meters ahead, I didn’t sprint, I didn’t want to, rather, I started to look for my wife and my little Pierre! They were there right before the arrival! So happy at this point!
The result: 1h:00m:19s, ranking 1210, I felt wonderful, not tired at all, just as usual.
Yes, some statistics,
Ah, I almost forgot, the goal of the run, the flower, I got a red rose and of course, my wife deserves it. She was quite happy with it but my little Pierre just didn’t care much, he was dreaming at the moment.
The rose is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteIt worths an hours wait with the little thing :D