After more than 6 months it's certainly well past the time for an update. Our good friend Ernest Ellis has graced the front page of this blog for long enough now...
Early February - Les Hivernales de Boitsfort - 20km - 1h31:37
I wasn't in the mood to write at the time, but this was an exhilarating race. We were just beginning to enter the peak of winter, the landscape was covered in snow: it was quite spectacular. The ground conditions weren't so bad either as the snow hadn't thawed and refroze or anything like that - it was still fresh and uncompacted. It probably slowed us down somewhat, especially going uphill, but still I enjoyed this race tremendously. Of course, the fact that I kept a steady pace and never felt tired at all was an important factor in my enjoyment.
Beautiful race. Yet again, thank you Royal Racing Club de Bruxelles. At five successive participations, this is by far the event I've done most in Belgium and definitely one of my favourite races here.
24 March - Parkloop Sparta, Vilvoorde - 12km - 0h55:30
In Belgium, spring has an uncanny habit of arriving exactly on schedule. This year was no exception, and since quite a few days now we're enjoying some fantastic weather. After so many months of running in the cold, it's so refreshing to be able to go out wearing just shorts and a vest.
Today marked the start of a new season for the Scott2run competition. I remember Vilvoorde very well from last year, so this time the steep uphill tracks were not a surprise and I was well prepared for them. I had in mind last year's time, which I wanted to beat, and I was doing good progress, overtaking many rivals without overexerting myself. In the last kilometre I set my sight on a last rival whom I could possibly overtake, so I imagined that he was myself running the same race last year. If I overtook him, I would improve my time over last year, I thought.
My imagination wasn't very far off the mark, at all: I did manage to overtake this guy by a handful of seconds, by almost exactly the same time that I clipped off of last year's effort!
Early February - Les Hivernales de Boitsfort - 20km - 1h31:37
I wasn't in the mood to write at the time, but this was an exhilarating race. We were just beginning to enter the peak of winter, the landscape was covered in snow: it was quite spectacular. The ground conditions weren't so bad either as the snow hadn't thawed and refroze or anything like that - it was still fresh and uncompacted. It probably slowed us down somewhat, especially going uphill, but still I enjoyed this race tremendously. Of course, the fact that I kept a steady pace and never felt tired at all was an important factor in my enjoyment.
Beautiful race. Yet again, thank you Royal Racing Club de Bruxelles. At five successive participations, this is by far the event I've done most in Belgium and definitely one of my favourite races here.
24 March - Parkloop Sparta, Vilvoorde - 12km - 0h55:30
In Belgium, spring has an uncanny habit of arriving exactly on schedule. This year was no exception, and since quite a few days now we're enjoying some fantastic weather. After so many months of running in the cold, it's so refreshing to be able to go out wearing just shorts and a vest.
Today marked the start of a new season for the Scott2run competition. I remember Vilvoorde very well from last year, so this time the steep uphill tracks were not a surprise and I was well prepared for them. I had in mind last year's time, which I wanted to beat, and I was doing good progress, overtaking many rivals without overexerting myself. In the last kilometre I set my sight on a last rival whom I could possibly overtake, so I imagined that he was myself running the same race last year. If I overtook him, I would improve my time over last year, I thought.
My imagination wasn't very far off the mark, at all: I did manage to overtake this guy by a handful of seconds, by almost exactly the same time that I clipped off of last year's effort!
