After a winter with barely nothing else than long-distance training I needed a race to take a sample on my speed condition. I finished my training period and gave myself a physical chock with some kilometres of speed. Then I simply rested for a week before the Heleneholm Marathon the 14th of April. Last time I ran a marathon was more than half a year earlier. This did affect me some and I was truly a little bit nervous. However I opened quite fast and past the first half on 1h 27min and dropped some during the second half. I finished with 2h 58min and I was very pleased with that.
Seven days later I felt the blood rushing through my veins again. Full of confidence and a week of rest made me feel strong. I was in no doubt of my capacity to make one more sub-3 marathon. But this time I was a pacer for a friend how just had to make his first sub-3 marathon. My mission was unmistakably, I had to keep a steady pace and push him if necessarily. I didn’t have to, he run like a machine just behind me and we finished together in 2h 57min. This was a good moment in our lives and later that day we ended up in the centre of Belgrade drinking some beers and eating a huge dinner.
Last stage La Transe Gaule 2005, 1 kilometer to go...
Me, english american Russel Seeker and some French friends. After 18 days on the roads, running from the English Canal to the Mediterranean we ended up on the beach.
