Sport	Race
Event	Wally Hayward memorial
Date	01 May 2009
Where	Centurion, South Africa
Distance	5 Km
Finishing Time	00:28:48
Race Number	859
Result	tba
Top %	tba
Pace	5:46 m/km
Speed	10.42 km/h
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My experience at the event:

Running a 5km used to be more like a traning session. These days, following a sequence of annoying injuries, it was a nice way to see if I can still run at a decent speed.
Even if the distance wasn't measured correctly (it was probably more around 6km that 5km, and most of the 10km runners moaned about their time as well), it was a good run.
I mostly raced with Curtis, Jill's boyfriend, who is a much more natural runner than me. He kept a very good tempo for a good 80% of the race before collapsing in front of the last hill (every time we run around Pretoria the course is always very tough). I kept my cruising speed and I finished within the 30 minutes mark, just like I wanted.
Now hopefully I will be able to build up from here and get back on the proper distances, like 10km / 21km, hoping to get enough energy in the future to finally run another marathon after my 10th and last 2 years ago... Back to sports

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