LSC 2.KĀRTA 15K & ZeltaKeda 2012

For me it was great adventure to run 15K without any rest before. So at the morning 25th of may, i wake up with smile on my face, i knew that i will check how strong my body is )) Before the race i felt myself nice, during the race - specially at the 2nd (of 5) lap i wish to die, during the last lap i wish i was dead at 2nd lap...BUT when i run to finish line i heard "look! the first woman at the finish line. It is Darya!!! Hooray!" So i felt so proud of myself ))

As u can see in results below, that i was the fist one ... prepare for next competition.

all results of me, dated 27/05/2012

 Next one was ZeltaKeda 2012 at 10th of June. Is was my fourth competition without any rest. So during four weeks i run four competitions. I prepare myself for 10K, but...something happened during fridays night, so for me was no saturday and during the race on sunday i changed my plans - to run 5K for time, and last 10K for fun )))
During the friday (mentioned above) i make a trip ~100K  on bicycle. I met very nice and funny people (cyclists), so with speed avr 25km/h we went from Mezapars to Mangalsala, and then we want to get some fun ,so we went to Jurmala )) see photos in my FB profile.
Because of this trip, in competition i run only 5k, but my time wasn`t so bad - 24:09 ;) Second 5k i was like speed keeper (SK) and my time was 26:04, last 5K i run with one great man, who gets siver medal a this competition, so also i got good time: 26:40. In sum it was 1h16min for 15K it`s great! :))) so i prepare myself for next competition - VENTSPILS PPP 3 2012. See in my next post... [hope i will run good]...

SEB 30. Tartu Jooksumaraton 13 mai 2012

Some small story about X-trail race of great 23K.
This competition was in Tartu (Eesti), so for me first competition outside LV. I had not prepared so much, cause i know that there will be more than 2 000 participants, so no hope for 1st place :))

me with yellow cap

Our voyage began at 6:45 in Riga. Then we went to Tartu, cause the SEB 30. Tartu Jooksumaraton starts at 11. During the voyage we talked about last years competition and so on about running...us usual :)) I went with 4 great guys, one girl (my age) and one lady (age group  might be W60).

This race was new for me, seems very interesting, cause i have no experience in long x-trail races. Previous was only 9K long, and it was very hard.

start

And also i`ve never seen so much participants >2 000. Interesting was to start with walking )) cause we cannot run - so much people at start(as u can   see in the picture ).

So we crossed whole town, than forest, countryside and so on...finally we finished at other town :)  (see in the map)

For me it was very funny, cause i run with lots of people young/old/symhatic/not so much :)) During the race we have lots of pit-stops: water, sports drink, bananas, bread etc. by the way i`ve made some new contacts. they might be helpful.
My result is not amazing, but not so bad ;)
See it here
Honestly, next year I definitely want to participate one more time ;)
More photos here

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]