Vienna City Marathon Relay (2017): First Time Running in a Competition

I started jogging and running in 2012 and kept the habbit with varying intervals between multiple times per week to multiple times per year. This year some of my colleagues suggested participating in the Vienna City Marathon in a relay group. The 42,2km get split into various lengths (ranging from ~6 to ~15km) that would all kinds of runners to participate.

It’s hard to describe the excitement of the day: Preparing the equipment, finding the relay station, meeting the person you take over from and then do the run. Everything worked out nicely, I ran my 11,27km with an average pace of 5’04”, which I think is my best time in a 10k+ so far. Running with/against others is a totally different feeling and extremely motivating. On top of that, I was the last in my group, so I got to enjoy to run into through the finish line where thousands of people were cheering.