Sunday 9th of July

AM
*40 min easy to fastish running with short & long strides.

PM
-RACE-

First leg of 4x1500 m(in Mikkeli)

*Perhaps 4:09 - 11 - hard to tell for sure (got different times from different people - but I'm convincing myself it was 4:09 - not that it matters that much).

(1h warm-up in 30C heat. Slow to fastish running. Some strides.)


*I ran like a tractor, knew I couldn't win (some people on the first leg had over 25 sec faster PB:s than me) so I tried to keep them from running fast by placing myself in front of them, closing their ways, giving elbows and kicking around, ugliest race ever on my part - in many ways... Still surprised it went this fast: I felt really bad and spending a lot of energy all the time, and first two laps were really slow, but as far as tactics go it wasn't that bad, every meter the lead ran slow ment a meter they didn't run away from me... (Too bad our team traded last years bronze to a last place - our second leg man Jani Hautala ran with an all or nothing attitude [just as he should] and did very well the first 800 m, 2:00, but then hit lactate badly and ran the last 400 in 85...)