Notes
Hard race... knee is still weak, the lack of training is showing already too, still I decided to go "full" into it and see what happens. First two laps were quite ok, but in third lap I already had to slow down a lot to catch up breathing, and also guts movements at 5-6th km. But I didn't overshoot the tempo too badly, as in last 7th km I did feel already better and was slowly going back to 2nd lap tempo, with sprint in finish included (beating other guy from my category just 1m ahead of line, with same time :)) I was quite red in the face after race, I don't look like that usually, so effort over 100% for sure, finally. ;) Although it probably just proves I can make better time when I run in more relaxed way, and that I don't have any huge reserve when I finish feeling well.
Only 1min improvement compared to previous year, when I was going "easy" to save energy for next days halfM... This is bad.
Also I missed the 3rd total place in Mizuno cup by 8pts (480 vs 472 points) to a dude who did run only 5 races (but won my category here in Brno, 100pts vs 80pts in this race alone). Next year I must be lot more faster every race. :)