MY FIRST HALF MARATHON...1H53'46''

Friends,

Let me give you a little bit of background about my first half marathon last Sunday January 17th:

Before the race:
1. Landed on Saturday morning from Philadelphia...18hours flight.
2. No sleep due to jet lag, I saw 2.00 am, 3.00 am, 4.00 am and 5.30 am I "woke up" to go to my first half marathon
3. Week before quite busy during my week stay in Philadelphia...and just 2 days training!
4. Toe nail right foot very injured...today is totally black!!

During the race:
5. First 2 Kms 5 to 10% uphill,
6. Late start...then zigzag during 1.5 Kms to get some space to run free
7. Too fast first 10K: 47', destroyed after Km-13 and survived next Kms...walk-run a lot!

After the race:
8. Exhausted, but, "quite happy overall" but unsure about my heart average beat ...very high!! I don't really know, if my max. is correct, 182 ...next week, I will do a VO2 max and acid lactate test.

Learnt lesson:
9. Focus on %Max run for next one,
10. Rest better and keep training hard...specially my running for my second challenge in 57 days: HIM Singapore 2010!

I attach my garmin connect for you to follow my race:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/22526019

and the results...overall 351, 72 HM35...
http://www.avohk.org/media/fck/File/ccm2010/ccm2010-avohk-half%20marathon-fullset-results.pdf

Btw, have a look at this video about that interesting challenge about new and old bike technologies:
http://www.daniel-markwalder.ch/webneu/anoceanofsky/index.html


Talk to you next post (which will be just about my next event/race, as I am very busy training, work, family and following 5 rules on my old post)!

"XTB" Xavi.