LIEPĀJAS PUSMARATONS 2012 on 15/07/2012

As I can imagine this day - summer hot, sunny...mmm cool... but not! When we drived to Liepaja (town in LV) it wasn`t sunny, lots of clouds and 80% showers. We joking about wind, cause we heard it needs to be more than 20m/s, so it`s possible to run very fast one part of competition and wery slow other part :))) We arrived almost one hour before, dressed up and walked to reach some showers and WC...i prefer not to describe this part )) For most serious problem was my knees and foot fingers, cause at last satuday i falled down from my bike and smased my knees, hands, foots etc. so i looked very sexy - bluesexy :)) Every day my finders hurt, so for me this competition was not for time, but for endurance.

Ok, we found some noskrien.lv participants and made photo (try to find me ;))

all noskrienieši

VSK noskrien Divstundnieki

Competition starts without rain, but wind was so fast and furious, i losr my cap twice :( We need to run 3 laps of  >7K. Ithink four laps of 5 K is better, but some thinks that better is 3... ghh lot sof opinions.
Ok my firast two laps was great, exclude loosing my cap and running after it, but at third lap i felt something unusual woth my foot and i saw blood. So i need to take a stop and to resolve this problem, this takes me ~6 min. Six minutes of losted time... Ok i didn`t even mind, caus ei understand that iwould not be the fastest one. But ! i runned this 1/2marathon at 1h56m and i ws 14th ))) not so bad ;) take off these 6 min, i could be 10th or higher...lets see at next one ;)
Results here
Some photos

not so funny...heh...

move b*

man, can you fly like me???

Sigulda X-Trail 12K at 21/07/2012

For me all x-trail(also known as cross) competitions is great experience.As I`m asphalt runner, for me forests, seeds and other nice extras of cross-running are difficult to overcome. And I take part of cross-competitions only for extra-training, not for achievments ;)
This x-trial needs to be hottest(cause its in july), so i decided that forest will keep me off from the sun, but... when we were at start position - sky changed their colour from light blue to dark grey. And showers began...ghrrr...5 min.before start, but i was already wet. Race were devided by two parts: 4.8 km and 7.4km. First shortest part i run over almost dry forest and meadow. When i commensed to run second part i so big puddles, i uunderstood that 2nd part will be much more harder. DAMN! 15 min.passed and i repented that i had courage to start this race. It was like surviving race: wet seeds, wet ladders even slick bridge. 30 min. passed...heh... there no finish.. in my GARMIN i saw 2 more km and my thoughts were only for survivng not for speed. Finally - asphalt - was like gift for me!!! I outrun one, two, three...four participants. 500m left, take speed - began smiling ))) and -OVER! Looked into GARMIN - 12.2km less than one hour - great achivment for me ;) 4th place )))
Now i decided to run this race one more time, but not like competitions - just for fun.

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 ;)))