Review of Wally Hayward Memorial - 02 May 2011

Sport Race
Event Wally Hayward Memorial
Date 02 May 2011
Where Centurion, Pretoria, South Africa
Distance 10 Km
Finishing Time 00:44:51
Race Number 3146
Result 209/1551
Top % 13%
Pace 4:29 m/km
Speed 13.38 km/h
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My experience at the event:

And finally it happened: I broke my personal record  on the 10km distance! And, more important, I managed to run for the first time a 10km under 45 minutes!

We arrived in Centurion too late to enjoy the group start of the 21km and the 10km, so I simply showed up some minutes later and started my own personal run.
Within 15 minutes I was back at the bottom of the group thanks to a crazy fast start (3:30 in the first km!), and I kept a good pace until the end, where the hilly part started.

I knew the course since it's not the first time I completed it, so I saved some energies on the long downhill before the last, tough, hill and with a final sprint I beat that damn 45 minutes wall that has been bugging me since I started running!
So there is life after 30.

And what a better way to celebrate that eating pancakes? One of the reasons why I like to run in the Pretoria area is the cheap pancakes always available after the race (and, in this case, also the massage tent for all the runners...). And what a surprise this time: for the first time ever I saw a hand made pancake machine that quickly created meters and meters of delicious pancakes...

 

Wally Hayward Memorial 2011

Wally Hayward Memorial 2011

Wally Hayward Memorial 2011

Wally Hayward Memorial 2011

Wally Hayward Memorial 2011

Wally Hayward Memorial 2011

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