The 1500

Last Saturday I have run ran a 1500 meters. It was for the first time (I have done that). So I had one practice run and I thought I would do the first 600 relatively slowly, and then give it my full. I was put in the first run, since I should be one of the fastest of/in my group, (which says/[tells] more about my group, than about my condition, actually.)

In the first lap/round I could clearly see three runners getting/running away from me. These are the fanatics, I cannot follow them. So I stayed in pass with a group of four other runners, one of them being my trainer. Over the first 700 meters, hence/that is one three-quarters of a lap/round and a full lap/round, even that group of four gained distance on me. but, I thought, I should not overrun myself. I even started to give it my full a little later than planned, after 700 meters, not six. But in that third lap/round I regained contact with the group again, and felt I had still some more to give.

At the beginning of the last lap/round I had contact. In the following loop I overtook them. I had more, but in the turn my trainer blocked me. Of all people! I had to move sideways into the second track, which cost me quite a bit of effort/force. Then I gave it all in the last 300. It went well. In the end I had gained almost ten seconds on three of the four in the group. Only my trainer... That trainer overtook me in the last 50 meters of the track, the same that had blocked me on the curve. Next year I will beat him.

For your interest my time: 6:55.59 and I am fifty years old, so really a veteran. Trainer had 6:54.94..