October 18, 2009   –   10:30 a.m.   -   Olympic Stadium Amsterdam

It’s done. I ran my first marathon and it is hard to describe how I feel now. I am proud of myself, I even like the pain in my legs and I know it wasn’t my last marathon!
It was such a great day. The conditions were just perfect.. around 10°C, sunny with a blue sky in the beginning, a little bit cloudy in the end, and the most important fact: no wind!
Start was in the Olympic Stadium. Me among 6900 other runners. There was a little loop through the city first and then through the Vondelpark back to the Stadionplein. From then on we ran out of the city limits along the Amstel where beautiful houses could be admired. Back through a boring industry area the last 12 km led through Amsterdam again, passing the Heineken brewery and the Rijksmuseum, back to the Olympic Stadium.

My tactic was just to run and watch the pulse and to avoid to be too fast in the beginning. And it seems that everything fell into place!

I wanted to finish the run under 4:30 h.
4:20 h would have made me a pretty happy girl. But that I reached the finish line after 4:12:15 h
I didn’t dare to dream. Wow.

I’ve put my data on sportics. If you like to see more details please click here.

I want to say “thank you” to my friends and family who supported me all the time, at home or even at the track; who believed in me and gave me strength and confidence. And a special “thank you” to my husband on whom I always could count on, the one who cooked pasta for me and had to spend a lot of hours without me!!
Danke schön.

Similar Posts

• It’s done..
• Berlin Marathon 2010
• Amsterdam

This entry was posted on Dienstag, Oktober 20th, 2009 at 14:44 and is filed under about me. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.