Z Valdir's races

Back to the index For this year we decided to return to Copenhagen for the marathon: We arrived on May 3rd and went directly from our hotel to the M arathon Expo, to get my bib: Here is the bag and the t-shirt. This ye ar they decided to go with the colour black for the t-shirt, it looks very  nice: On May 5th I arrived forty minutes before the start of the marathon: The line for the washroom was so long that I spent all my forty minutes in it. I was still waiting to go when the marathon started. But, with fifteen thousand people waiting to start the race, I still had to wait with the crowd: I started the race more than twenty minutes after the elite had gone. I was with the 4h20 bunny at the start. The first two kilometers I had to go slower than I intended because the crowd would not allow us to develop our regular speed. But in the kilometers after that I was able to run the time that I wanted.  I started to struggle around kilometer 16. Up to that my averages per kilometer were