Today we started fresh and well rested from the New Year celebrations in a busy new year 2011 in Rostock New Year's run.
We decided, like last year for the 11 km. At this time of year I would not rush and so I thought I was relaxed, smiling slightly at the end of the field. We talked very pleasant and enjoyed at best winter weather, the scenery around Rostock, Pape village and Sildemow. At the speed it was then not at all bad that the ground was frozen and not necessarily to run fast invited.
Just before we went to Papendorf, irritated us and some other fellow traveler, a mark that was right. I remembered the last year and we went straight to Pape village. There it went steeply downhill and I had a bit afraid before the return journey. We then turned left and we had a soft spot with hot tea and chocolate.
invited the course for a little break and we shuffled at rest on. Suddenly an elderly gentleman came from behind and said we should give a bit of gas, he was the last. the 11km runners. Anne and I were totally surprised, he moved past us and another comment was: 75 may be the surely.
It inspired me, of course, to be by no means last and I said to Anne that we will catch him yet. The ambition, however, let me quickly go again, since with the soil conditions, but simply made no sense.
When I asked how long he has been running for 40 years, he said. The last 4 km, we were running more or less together, he always gone forward.
The last hundred meters, he began to dawdle. Meanwhile, we set out to be the last to finish the race, he would most like to bide us, we agreed to run together to the finish.
It was a nice start into the new year. The best is stop at the end.
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