Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
On Sunday the Danish 10 km road running championship title was contested. The race, held in Århus, featured two Faroese runners: the triathlete Joan Bláfoss and Guttorm Sørensen. The latter was there representing FÍF’s elite group.
Joan finished second in this same race last year, when she ran the fantastic time of 35:33 min. However, the time could not be ratified as a record, because it emerged that the course was 50 m too short. A real shame for Joan, who rarely takes part in running races, and on courses approved for setting records. But now she was given another chance, and it must be said that she took it. In the first half of the race she was battling for third place, but unfortunately she got a stomach ache and dropped back a little. She still finished in a fine 5th place, with a time of 36:37 min. Not as fast as last year, but well and truly fast enough to break the old record, which Bjørk Herup Olsen set at the Várkapping in March 2008.
Things did not go to plan for Guttorm. His legs already felt heavy during the warm-up, and on top of that he got a stomach ache during the race. The aim was to run under 34:00 min, but the conditions on the day meant that the result was 34:26 min. That was good enough for 80th place overall out of 281 finishers, and in the men 40–44 category he finished 11th.
