PURWOKERTO HALF MARATHON (10K)

 Hii, hive runners friend. It's 2025 and 5 months almost passed, how many race events have you participated in? Me? I have only participated in one event at the beginning of this year, compared to my friends who have participated in many races, I have only participated in one this year. In addition to the cost of the race which this year has increased dramatically from last year, another reason is because the progress of my race is still not good, my race is still in pace 8 or 9/km. However, this time I signed up for my first race of the year, far from where I live, 5 hours by train, in a city called Purwokerto. The price of this race actually doubled from last year, but I made it a vacation and ran leisurely. ***RACE PACK COLACTION*** On May 10, my friend and I departed from Jakarta at 6:00 am, and arrived at the destination city at 11 am, but we did not go straight to the Racepack collection place, we went to eat first and picked up my other friend, at 3 pm, we went to the racepack location, because this is the last day and many runners are from out of town too, so this place is still crowded, but not too crowded. After getting the racepack, we took pictures with our BIB, this racepack is quite a lot, and very useful for runners all the products we get.   ***RACE DAY*** Race day this time I felt nervous, because this was my first 10k this year and I rarely exercise, because my leg hurt yesterday I was pessimistic and afraid that I would DNF. (because of misinformation with my friend, I chose 10k while my friend 5k). At 4:00 am, my friends and I went to the venue, but from the parking lot to the venue was quite far, as long as we walked, we were treated to beautiful bridge lights and soon saw fireworks signaling the event had opened, and we saw the halfmarathon runners had started running, and for 10k will start 30 minutes later. And when we arrived at the venue, my friend and I warmed up before running, this time it was done well and almost 10 minutes, because my friend often participates in long runs. And it turned out that the warm-up this time really had a good effect on me.    5.30 we flagged off. With my first pace at 8:44/km. from the start we runners were treated to an unusual route, a lot of uphill tracks, almost every 500 meters it seems, and this is a difficult route for me. Fortunately in this event there was a lot of cheering to encourage us. Plus the water stations didn't pile up and queue. In the middle of the road, there were residents who provided mineral water for us, this made us happy and happy because this event was supported by local residents.     With a total avg pace of 9:29, I completed my 10km, with a moving time of 1:36:02.      ***FINISH*** After the finish I got my medal, took some refreshments, and took a photo with my friends.     ------- -------