– I felt good the first five, after that I was tired, says Henrik Ingebrigtsen after his half marathon debut. Ingebrigtsen passed the last point of 20 kilometers, but never made it across the finish line in Copenhagen. But in reality he gave up even before one mile was passed. – I dropped the group after six or seven kilometres. After that I tried for a while, but I found that I had to run at least halfway. Then I broke, says Ingebrigtsen. IT WAS HARD: Henrik Ingebrigtsen, pictured here during the WC in Budapest. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB Promised to break This was Henrik Ingebrigtsen’s half-marathon debut. He had hoped to run down to 62-63, but that never happened. – Today I didn’t have the energy. It’s hard to deliver at this level if you don’t have it. I haven’t trained specifically for this, says Ingebrigtsen. He has a checkered injury history, a troubled hamstring, Achilles and heel have kept him out of running shoes earlier in his career. – I promised everyone to wrestle if I felt any pain in my hamstring, thigh, Achilles or anything else. I shouldn’t take any risks, says Ingebrigtsen, with extra pressure on something. It is a completely different tone to what Ingebrigtsen said to news before the race in Copenhagen. – Now you have two personal records this year, what are the chances that it will be three within seven days from now? – Yes, it is one hundred percent, because I have never run a half marathon, so there is easily a 100 percent probability of another “pers”. And three personal bests in one year, it must be good work. – That requires you to reach the finish line, then, have you thought about that? – I always get to the finish line. I always get to the finish line. But next year there are the Olympics in Paris. Henrik Ingebrigtsen would like to go there, and that requires injury-free preparations this winter. – The most important thing for me is to get back and start training and fight against the best in the world on the track, says Ingebrigtsen. Norwegian record for Grøvdal Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal ran in 67:34 at the Copenhagen half marathon. The time is an official Norwegian record. – The goal was a personal record and a Norwegian record, so I am very satisfied, says Grøvdal after the race. Grøvdal came sixth in the women’s class, which was won by Irene Cheptai (Kenya). – It was a perfect course for running fast, but it was a bit too hot to get a very fast time, says Grøvdal. Although it is a Norwegian record, Ingrid Kristiansen has run faster. In 1987 she ran 66:40, but the course was never controlled. Therefore, the time does not count as a Norwegian record. SET RECORD: Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB
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