Pyramiden Lauf 2017

March 2016 was my comeback to the Pyramiden Lauf after my last appearance in the early nineties. I wished to participate a couple of years before that but missed it because of my ankle problems. In 2016 I finished in 48 minutes, walked part of the route, and felt like I had run a marathon afterward.

Within the last year, I focused on running at least 1 to 3 times per week and I ran two official half marathons besides higher mileage training.
3 weeks before the race I made a 7k trial and finished in 43 minutes. Although I made a new personal record, I was a little bit disappointed, as I wished after last year’s race to finish the 2017 race under 40 minutes.

This year, I managed the race very efficiently running the first 4k near my maximum and pushing harder for the last 3k reaching 5:23 min/k the last 900 meters. I clocked 41:19 on my wrist watch positioning myself in 297 places, improving around 7 minutes and more than 150 places, not as wished last year but not bad at all. The more important thing was finishing powerful and feeling like I finished a daily routine.

This year my daughter managed to run the race and improved 13 minutes from last year finishing in 57 minutes, both of us were very proud of her achievement.

The feeling you get when you finish the race makes you want to repeat this over and over again, may God give us the strength to run and never stop.