19/04/2021
So a few friends and I started a week ago the second race out of three in total - because !
🏞The Great Lakes Marathon Potsdam🏞
The route led us through my beautiful hometown Potsdam. Trails, park paths and some road sections were on the program and we passed by a lot of big lakes of our city. The weather was just amazing with a bright sky and a lot of sunshine. I started with Maik and my good old buddy Peter, who was my running mate at the in 2019. We started with a nice pace of 5:00 mins/km and speeded it up like every 10kms.
However, this time there was a treacherous banked curve relatively at the beginning, which, thanks to the rain shortly before the start, led to an unexpected slip game that ended for me in the horizontal. 😅 Lucky me I had my red calves on regarding to my membership. 😁👌
And of course, as always at long runs, with my beloved LonePeaks 3.5. 💯🚀
It was my third marathon ever and I was again able to take first place with a new PR of 03:19:22 which is a pace of 4:43 mins/km! 🏆🥳🥇
What a wonderful experience! And in 2 weeks there is the last race of the Potsdam Marathon Series 2021 and hopefuly I am able to make a triple out of it. 🤩👍
So have a great week to you all! 😊