#27: Race day

Lessons from my first half-marathon

Hey friends,

I’ve already bored you for the last few months with my plans to run the half-marathon, so I guess I’ll need to stop now.

Because I’ve run the race today. And it was awesome.

Some photos from the race

So stick with me, as it’s going to be the last time I’ll bore you with these half-marathon details (next time maybe it will be a marathon, or a run in the mountains, or a Spartan, we’ll see).

Look, I was pretty nervous before the race, for several reasons.

The first reason was that my recovery had been s..t for the past weeks. I use an app called Athlytic that calculates my recovery and strain each day based on several measurements coming from my Apple Watch. It’s basically heart rate during sleep and HRV.

Anyway, since Bali, these metrics have been off the charts. In a negative way. I don’t know what happened, but I had VERY low recovery scores from the 17th of September until the beginning of this week. And this got me worried a bit; it was probably the jet lag, maybe the extra couple of beers in Bali. …