Sport	Race
Event	Om Die Dam
Date	12 March 2016
Where	Hartbeespoort Dam, South Africa
Distance	50 Km
Finishing Time	05:05:34
Race Number	3851
Result	764/2913
Top %	26%
Pace	6:07 m/km
Speed	9.82 km/h
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My experience at the event:

I've done few 50km in the past.

But never one where I felt so good from start to finish like this one. Even if my time was only 2 minutes faster than last year (and still some time off my personal record), I know I could have finished at least 15 minutes earlier, if, after finding Andy struggling, and vomiting (after a strong first 30km) with 15km to go, I did not decide to try to help him for 6/7 km so he could finish as well. But it doesn't matter, for 50km I tried to avoid looking at the watch and only tried to listen to my playlist and enjoy the beautiful surrounding of the race. 

For once I did not push myself at the start, during the easy part, and I managed to never walk on the hills when running by myself. My last 5km (trying to reach an improbably under-5 hours time) were done at crazy speed, but my legs stayed with me until the end.

It was overall a great run, probably my best in a long time.

Analysis  of the race here: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1081818612

Some pictures here:

On the hills

Looking good

Arrived!

Medal and beers

With Andy

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