This weekend brought the fourth execution of the Skechers season, a well -executed series with several distances to choose from, organized from the new golf racing and horsepower facilities of Meydan.
The closed road course through this Dubai developing neighborhood gave iconic views of the center’s horizon and the spacious route lined with palm trees was an idyllic scenario for my first race in the city.
Being relatively new to run, it was not how to follow the rhythm of the 10 km ahead, usually just run and I hope the best! But the coach helped me to divide the race into two pieces of 5K: the first, an easy rhythm that I felt that I could sustain all day, the second, gradually increasing until the end.
Planet instead, the most difficult thing to do was follow it! With everyone they aligned together on the output line, it was too easy to be swept in adrenaline and keep up with the fastest runners in the front. The result was that I did the first km more or more significant than I intended, and I really struggled to reign the rhythm to follow the plan.
However, 5 km later, I was very slippery, I did it! There was something very satisfying to overcome half of the brand and have enough saved so that it could intensify a notch with each km to go and finish the last km with my strongest rhythm.
I was also soft, I had practiced a little with gels in some of my long races. I cannot recommend enough mango and maracuyá gels of real fruits, they are like a small explosion of a fruit shake that gave me the small impulse of perfect energy to move forward (and not all chemicals!).
Contraded key to me of this race: Stay with the career plan, and do not start too close to the front of the package with people who do not remain in the rhythm of eralation
By Alice Squizzoni
Posted on February 4, 2025
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