Joe ran the Malmö10k on Saturday. Thanks to Karin's support, we even have some pictures to proof it...
It all started with a cellphone headset. Joe went through a sale-bucket at a telecom-store and found this headset to go with his SE-phone. The original price was somewhat around SEK 900:- (which is just ridiculous), sales price was SEK 600:-. There was a note, though, encouraging you to ask a salesperson for the current price. This Joe did and was confronted with a current price of SEK 300:-. After a short flinching from Joe's side, the price was lowered to SEK 200:-. Now, You might think that's still expensive, but then you have to take into account that we're not talking about a regular headset. This one has GPS integrated, meaning that you can now use your phone as a navigator. You might wonder what that got to do with Joe partaking in a running event. Well, apart from the navigator program, there was another program included called Tracker. This one lets you see where and how fast you travel as well as recording this information. Main area of use for this application: jogging/running.
So, eventually, to test the application, Joe started jogging through Malmö. Three kilometres became five, five became 7, and before you know it, Joe was running 10 kilometres. All this running was not too bad, but what Joe was missing was a goal. Enter Malmö10k. After seeing some advertising for this event Joe decided to partake (at which time Joe was running around 5km). So, with help of the Tracker-program Joe trained to run the 10km under the hour, which seemed to go fine.
Now Saturday, 13 June was the actual event and after three days of rain, the weather changed to partly cloudy and later sunny, which was perfect running weather. After putting on the running gear (including a chip for timekeeping) and having the support of Karin, Joe was ready. As stated, the goal was to finish under the hour; less than 55 minutes would be even better. The track started at Pildammsparken, then went on to the Turning Torso and Västra Hamnen whith the Öresundsbridge in the background, continuing through Universitetsholmen and Slottsparken and finishing at Tallriken/Pildammsparken after passing the Malmö Opera. It was a really nice and scenic track, but most of all it felt good that, for once, the cars had to wait for us and not the other way around (if you jog in the city, you'll really start to hate cars). All the time, Karin wasn't far away and supported Joe whilst taking plenty of pictures.
When Joe finally crossed the finish line, he was exhausted (naturally!). It hadn't gone as well as he anticipated, probably because he ate too much in the morning or drank too much before the event. Anyway, Joe finished and got a big hug&kiss from Karin (once he had caught his breath). And, as all other participants, he now has a medal as proof of his participation. Later that evening, we had a nice relaxed BBQ with a couple of friends at our place.
That night, Joe slept really well...
BTW, Joe's time was 54:35.
As I am writing this, I am sitting on the train from Ystad to Malmö. Might just as well use the one and a half hours of travelling time for something constructive, I thought. So another blog entry, which is funny since the last one hasn’t been published yet (It will be once you have read this).
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