Sorger half marathon Graz 2016

On Sunday the 20th of March the first competition of season 2016 was on the plan. I wanted to see what effect my winter training has had.

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My goal was to improve my personal best in half marathon, which should definitely be possible from the point of my training’s results.
The course was three laps on a 7 km circuit into the center with the start in the Herrgottwiesgasse.
I started with a pace of 4:00/km and was able to keep this pace up for the whole race – also because I have met Andreas Wünscher during the race and we could run together.

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At the end I have improved my personal best half marathon time by 11 (!!!) minutes and finish with a time of 1:25:09.

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This time put me onto the 32nd rank within my new age group AK30 and on the 60th rank overall.

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Many thanks to Laura for the great pictures and to all the spectators as well as colleges who supported me and pushed me to that great performance.