Riga 1/2marathon 29.04.2012, my 2nd 21K !

i`ve gotta move like Jagger!

Simple and funny --- that needs to be this running, but ...

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Five days before inportant event Rīgas Pusmaratons 2012 (further RP2012) I felt myself stong and poweful, hovewer destiny wasn`t agree with this so I catched some stomach virus and throughtout 72h I was sleeping, like bear in winter. Next day I`ve decided to run, but at the morning I run 200m and fall dawn - no power! neeed recharge! So I`ve tried one more time in evening - lucky ~7km. Next day I felt myself more comfotable and more or less stable and full of power - so I run ~11km. Saturday I made - FreeDay - shure with shopping and some other stuff - so no rest! Such stupid girl - that I`ve relaised in the bed at night before competition. So, include above mentioned stupidity, I went to Bikernieku Trase. Whehe I met lot`s of great people - great runners like me :)

is the power enough?

who is ready?  - i`m ready!

And shur eour Noskrien.lv team was complete - 6 paticipants with orange t-shirt with name "VSK Noskrien Divstundnieki", forther in comments you can find us like " Probably the best noskrien.lv team" ;)

run, Forest, run!

So the competition beggins - ~800 participants. Amazing! 1st lap Ive finished at 24m, nice feelings, cause I run very fast as best I can :) next lap, I statrted to think about HR - saw not so good 180... try to reduce it, but unsuccessful - 2nd lap finished at 27m. Third lap I start with one idea - idea about my pre-excercises... I understand how hard is now, without any rest. Damn! I wish I was smarter! So 3rd lap I`ve finished at 29m with HR 175, fourt was death lap. No power, no happiness, no imagination - just running... to finish. So I`ve did it for 29m with HR 175.
Hovewer, I was very glad! I`m proud of myself - after ilness and two days of running, I run 1/2marathon at BK, you know... this race wasn`t so simple - it`s one of the hardest race in LV, and my time was 1h51m! I`ve got 14th place in my group and 36th place among all women. See, not so bad ;)))

Ogre X-Trail 2012 (15th of april)

Sunny sunday 15th of April...temperature is rising till +20`C...cool. So I went to check my power at X-Trail race. This rac eis different than marathon race, cause "x-trail" means "asfalt, forest, mountains, ladder etc." so it might be all kind of coating. At a first time I think that 9,2km(2x laps of 4,6km) for me it might will be very easy, but... when i saw the race I change my opinion for 180deg. Here you can se the race. 

me very serious

Before start i was very serious, trying to concentrate on my HR and race difficulty. I went there with my two male friens - they decided to run only one lap -4,6km. After 10 min. from starts line, i think they choose better one, but i`m strong and trained girl so i`ve run 2 laps.

It was hard on mountains, but easy at asfalt and very interestinf in forest - you know...roots, trees ))) someone falls...someone scream ))) nice! I thought i can die at second lap...when i need to climb on ladders, then forest roots and at desert - 100m mountain - hard one! But the finsh was so close, I smell i tin the air...4..3...2...1! I`ve did it! The best, the winner :)))

The results here : i get 6th place in general, and 4th in my group. Not bad for first time ;) but I know i cando it better! Hope to improve my results in next year.

sleeping)))

attending the results...[Ingars, me, Janis]