45 days to goooo!!!
OMG, I just realized about this, but no panic, I just know somehow I will make it.... Despite lack of decent training from last two weeks.
This week I made like this:
Saturday morning, before leaving Spain, I made a hard 3 mile run :O
Sunday afternoon went for 4 miles and ended with 5 feeling good.
Monday afternoon tried to do 8 miles and ended with only 7.3 with lots of walking included. Still no panic, I fell like now I have to go for the distance and I will be back on shape. The only bad part is that this long "walks" grrr take for ever. In fact it was in total about a mile that I walked. Over the 5th mile I felt soooo hungry, incredible hungry and had a gel, but it wasn´t by chance enough and made a stop at home and devored a banana and a peanut butter sandwich, I know it sounds nasty, but it was like that. I headed the road again and for the first moments felt better, but about 15 minutes latter I was dizzy. Now I know this was because I had too much carbs at the time, that made it harder to end and also time was running out my girl was waiting for me and it was already almost 8pm. Time 1hr 30 min.
Tomorrow I will try again. A long run must be done. I will go for 14 trying to reach 16, let´s see how it goes. Today lots of water and carb loading. Wish me luck :D
London 10km
As I said before I could participate in a 10km race in London, I was so lucky.
First I have a friend who received my bib number after hardly trying to contact the organizators. I didn´t read the complete instructions on their web page and the overseas participants had to be suscribed since june to be able to received the packages. Lucky me.
I was there with my family but Luis my husband is not use to be in big cities and prefered to wait for me in the hotel with Abril. It was a shame but at the same time I know how hard is to be with my 8 year old girl only walking around just to ¨maybe¨ watching me pass.
So there I was going to Picadilly Circus station to reach the Waterloo. It was very easy to find, thounds of runners were there. London was under an unexpected heat wave, can you beleive it? Looks like heat follows me. It was the sun who was burning but at least you can breath there the air was not damped as it is here. It took, me about 25 minutes to cross the starting line and I could see from the other side of the street that after me still were coming thousands of participants. It was nice to be next to so many runners, for moments they help you to go faster, and other times when they pass you I could feel that the only person to be defeated is yourself, nobody else.
Of course I wasn´t in my best shape, but form last year 10km in Mexico city my time improved for about 12 minutes!!! Last year was 1hr 15 min and now 1 hr 3min. There wasn´t a chip to record times, but I checked my time with my heart rate monitor. Garmin batteries were off. I think I left it turned on the last time I used it and I turned on until the last moment when on my way to the race... And I wanted to see the nice 10km map in London...
The improvement included some walking that I hated but also forgot about it when saw my time. I wish I can do it better next time.
The experience helped me to learn that starting too fast will be a key for the marathon race, is not the same to know than to have the experience.
If you want to have fun watching my photos from the race on the web check here my bib number was 21942. This photos are terrible, but good to see reality... How fat I am!!! And my legs were the tannest from all the race :D
I´m in a public internet, service at home is not working grrrrr. That´s why I couldn´t comment in you blogs, but thanks for being here you are great part of my motivation.
This week I made like this:
Saturday morning, before leaving Spain, I made a hard 3 mile run :O
Sunday afternoon went for 4 miles and ended with 5 feeling good.
Monday afternoon tried to do 8 miles and ended with only 7.3 with lots of walking included. Still no panic, I fell like now I have to go for the distance and I will be back on shape. The only bad part is that this long "walks" grrr take for ever. In fact it was in total about a mile that I walked. Over the 5th mile I felt soooo hungry, incredible hungry and had a gel, but it wasn´t by chance enough and made a stop at home and devored a banana and a peanut butter sandwich, I know it sounds nasty, but it was like that. I headed the road again and for the first moments felt better, but about 15 minutes latter I was dizzy. Now I know this was because I had too much carbs at the time, that made it harder to end and also time was running out my girl was waiting for me and it was already almost 8pm. Time 1hr 30 min.
Tomorrow I will try again. A long run must be done. I will go for 14 trying to reach 16, let´s see how it goes. Today lots of water and carb loading. Wish me luck :D
London 10km
As I said before I could participate in a 10km race in London, I was so lucky.
First I have a friend who received my bib number after hardly trying to contact the organizators. I didn´t read the complete instructions on their web page and the overseas participants had to be suscribed since june to be able to received the packages. Lucky me.
I was there with my family but Luis my husband is not use to be in big cities and prefered to wait for me in the hotel with Abril. It was a shame but at the same time I know how hard is to be with my 8 year old girl only walking around just to ¨maybe¨ watching me pass.
So there I was going to Picadilly Circus station to reach the Waterloo. It was very easy to find, thounds of runners were there. London was under an unexpected heat wave, can you beleive it? Looks like heat follows me. It was the sun who was burning but at least you can breath there the air was not damped as it is here. It took, me about 25 minutes to cross the starting line and I could see from the other side of the street that after me still were coming thousands of participants. It was nice to be next to so many runners, for moments they help you to go faster, and other times when they pass you I could feel that the only person to be defeated is yourself, nobody else.
Of course I wasn´t in my best shape, but form last year 10km in Mexico city my time improved for about 12 minutes!!! Last year was 1hr 15 min and now 1 hr 3min. There wasn´t a chip to record times, but I checked my time with my heart rate monitor. Garmin batteries were off. I think I left it turned on the last time I used it and I turned on until the last moment when on my way to the race... And I wanted to see the nice 10km map in London...
The improvement included some walking that I hated but also forgot about it when saw my time. I wish I can do it better next time.
The experience helped me to learn that starting too fast will be a key for the marathon race, is not the same to know than to have the experience.
If you want to have fun watching my photos from the race on the web check here my bib number was 21942. This photos are terrible, but good to see reality... How fat I am!!! And my legs were the tannest from all the race :D
I´m in a public internet, service at home is not working grrrrr. That´s why I couldn´t comment in you blogs, but thanks for being here you are great part of my motivation.
posted by Hilda at 12:30 PM
7 Comments:
12 min, all I can say - go, Hilda! 45 days are perfect, and you CAN do it for sure!!! Don't panic, you will be just fine:)
and hey, you looked absolutely fine and fit in the pictures!
25 minutes to cross the starting line, this was the real race! You look in shape in the picture!
And the confirmation words to post this comment is: qfine!!!!!!
Great race, what an amazing improvement. And you do NOT look fat - you look awesome!
By the way, there is nothing "nasty" about PB & banana sandwiches... mmm they're the best!
Sounds like a big race there in London. 45 more days until the marathon, I'm excited.
I'm not sure about the tannest legs but I reckon they are the best looking legs! Some great pictures there.
My family supports my running but they would not be too happy to go on a overseas holiday and for me to compete in a fun run.
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