Vahepeal lubasin ennast osa võtma ühest väljakutsest, nimelt tuli valmis õmmelda mõned spordiriided ning nende välkudes siis mõnest oma valitud võistlusest või rahvaspordiüritusest osa võtta ja siis "asitõendid" blogisse riputada. Esimesed kaks etappi on tehtud ja nüüd asun siinkohal kolmanda kallale, et aga konkurss on välja kuulutatud inglise keeles, siis mõtlesin erandkorras ka postituse inglise keeles kirja panna. Jutt saab aga ilmselt ülevaatlikult dubleerima minu spordiriiete postituste tekste väikeste võistluskohaste lisadega, seega kui võõrkeel on keeruline, siis tegelikult pole hullu:)

Hi, I'm Aveli from the Logbook of Great Things. I usually don't blog in English but this time I made an exception as this is kind of a special case ;) A few months ago Melissa from Fehr Trade announced the Spring Race Challenge. Every participant had to sew some sports gear and wear their creation to a freely chosen race. The challenge was announced right about the time I started getting really into sewing active wear so I literally jumped when I read that. And now, well, I've made myself some running clothes and I've participated some races so it's about time to show some proof :D

First, on 1. May I ran a 12km race - The 85th Grand Race Round Lake Viljandi -  It's a really tough trail and it was my nineth time taking part. I was so happy that I managed to improve my personal best by 14 minutes - it took me 1.05.24 to complete the race (as someone pointed out - if I had ran just 10 seconds faster, my finishing time would have matched the date, but hey, I think that improving by 14 minutes was alredy a pretty good result this time, no need to cry about those 10 seconds :) ) As this spring and summer have already been and are assumingly going to be quite hectic, I wasn't sure I had an oppurtunity to run another race before the end of the challenge and so I really wanted to wear some of my own made garments, athough the weather was quite cold and I haven't actually sewn anything for the kind of conditions where there is only +4 degrees Celcius. Fourtunately I didn't realize it was that cold until there was a large clock with a thermometer on the 10th kilomeeter so it just felt a little chilly for a tank top at the start, but nothing unbearable and I still decided to wear my Lululemon inspired workout top (used my old sprts bra for making the pattern for the bra part and drafted a pattern myself for the shirt part) and navy shorts from an old Burda pattern (more pictures of the top and the shorts). I didn't get any good pictures from the race as I forgot to take a camera with me so a phone camera and a picture from a website have to do:

https://www.sportfoto.ee/ee-et/p/701081

The other race I participated on 11. May was a 10 km trail run. It was also a race I improved my personal best at - it was the first time I ran 10 km under an hour and my exact result was 0:53:36. Yay! I wore the same navy shorts and a simple running top (pattern drafted from an old tank top, more pictures here):

So that's it! :) I've actually made some more sports gear this year and I've also taken part some more races, but another time, another story...

Aveli