So a friend asked me to join him for the Half Marathon in Heidelberg. Since that was one week in advance and this event is limited to 3,5k starters it was obviously sold out, but there was supposed to be a possibility to buy a number from someone a day before.
Indeed I managed to get a number and while I was not particularly looking forward as it was pretty cold and wet on Saturday, things looked completely different on Sunday morning. The weather was perfect and while I felt I wasn’t very well prepared I was keen on running through the beautiful scenery and up the hills of Heidelberg.
We lost each other before the start, so I was a little lost and missed the first two starts. However as there was a lot of space, especially for the small number of participants during the whole run I had no problem catching up to people running a little faster. Actually I was pretty worried about running too fast (as always) when Endomondo whispered lap times of around 4 minutes in my ear, but apparently I was in better shape than I had thought.
After 12 kms I was a little confused, because I expected the second hill, but it wasn’t there. It started at about km 16, which was pretty hard, but fortunately, the last 2 kilometers were only descending, so the final sprint was basically effortless.
Surprisingly I finished in slightly under 1:40 hours, far better than I expected and it was a lot of fun as well 🙂