Wonderful vacations :D

I'm finally back! This were some great vacations full of experiences, emotions, visiting, learning, food, museums, shopping, walking and even some running!!
We were in Spain with our nice friends Mary Carmen and Antonio, who took us to see around their home town Murcia and then Madrid surroundings. Also we visited London and there I was able to participate in a 10km race (more about this latter).
Being with local people in Spain, made us look in a different way the country, but also made us share some of their habits like going to bed as late as 2am :O.

Going on vacations seem to be even more tired than the marathon training. Incredible, but my supposed to be good fitness level didn't helped at all for all the walking I had to make and that I am not use to. Definitely, walking is not the same as running. At the end of every day my legs were tired and stiff. I was wondering if this was going to affect my training a lot, but what could I do? As the cautious that I always am, (coward) preferred not to run since I was still using A LOT my legs. Hope I can go back running normally soon.
As my friends saw my limping they took me to a podiatrist who made special orthotics for my feet and seem to be working very good with the spur. How nice to be able to visit someone like him often... Well someday.
Share with you some photos, I took about 700 but I am only just in a few that my daughter kindly took. Luis is not a photographer.

In a short resume I will say that I made three easy runs and a 10km race the first week, but didn't run at all the second. I was too tired and felt that it was just too much. Five days with out running was strange, but I was so busy that hardly remembered about it. It was my body who felt it, my mind was quiet.
Saturday morning at the hotel where we were staying went to the treadmill and made a short 4 km who seem that never going to end...
Today I ran 5 miles and felt very good. Running made me feel at home, the hotel is in fact a wonderful place to run. When running in Spain and London I was thinking about how different life is in cities and that maybe for me living in a city will take me apart from running... Still I want to think this is only a feeling and that I would combine it as most people do it. The thing is that the landscape and scenery I have here makes it definitely easier. It was very nice to go back and run, it was like being me again, I love this place to run.