[OFF TOPIC] Your Own Excercise Thread

[heywoodu 16,301]

11 hours ago, Agger said:

Haven't really been much active in here for the last half year but planning to be back now after my big mission. Yeah folks, did my marathon on Sunday.

 

Started the year with a slight knee injury after a small crash on the icy roads in November, but just managed to get it back on course  on time.

 

In March I had my international debut on the half Marathon doing the Lisbon Half Marathon. A rather chaotic experience but what a view running across the Ponte 25 de Abril. Not a massive time as it was mainly part of my training. 

 

Since then it has been about putting on some distance peaking at 32km. Everything went really well and I even changed my target time from 4:30 to 4:20

 

On race day I managed to keep myself following the 4:20 pacers for some 2km before just feeling that I could take it up a notch so yeah. Even caught up with the 4:10 pacers a bit more than halfway through and even put them behind me for a couple of kms before really starting to feel the distance.

 

In the las 9 km it was a bit chaotic with people stopping everywhere to walk. I got caugth up in it by a water station which shortly killed me. Got back up running but I would guess that about 30% of the last 7-8km were walking though the last km was all running finishing with tears in my eyes in 4:10.44. 

 

A magnificent experience but also the toughest thing I've ever done before. 

That showed some 1½ hours later when I collapsed and apparently had some cramping meaning that I was adviced to visit the hospital. getting out some 14 hours later after a night in observation. 

Most likely my blood sugar just crashed completely so nothing to worry about. Did hit my knee in the fall, though. 

 

Don't know if I'll ever do it again. If I do I certainly learned a lot, both when it comes to training and of course making sure that I actually get fueled after the race!

 

Impressive job mate, well done