The happy 3:53:45

Three Marathons in three weeks – very happy to run Cologne Marathon, at a sunny fresh day that everything went perfectly and finished fresh and strong at 3 hours 53 minutes. It turns out that I recover well in two weeks, but not in one week 😮. Amazing people everywhere along the route and a city with high respect for pedestrians and cyclists.

At the race profile diagram, my genuine strategy is revealed, targeting my preferred fresh finish at 3 hours 52mins+ (5:30m/km), which I should patent 😀: a steady pace of 5:30m/km- up to the 15km mark and 5:30m/km+ up to 30km mark, always a little recovery “siesta” between 31-34km, a return to the steady 5:30m/km+ pace until the 40km mark, and then the final 2.2km to the finish line with epic joy and epic strength at 5:13m/km 😀😀, overpassing more than 1.000 runners at the second half of the Marathon 😮.

One finished, 16 to go 😀.