Week 9.

[Antonio247]

Wednesday. I left at 6.15 am. The surface was wet since it had rained the day before and at night. As I had to do 7 miles, I decided to go to Hospital Torrecárdenas as on Monday the previous week. I went along carretera de Sierra Alhamilla, turning right to take the bridge and avenida del Mediterráneo uphill. It started to drizzle when I had done about 2 kms but later it started to rain quite a lot. It was as if I was having a shower and running at the same time. As I was wearing shorts or singlets, as I think they are called, I could feel the rain in my legs. I remembered you running in hard weather conditions. However, as I´m not used to running in the rain, I really enjoyed it for a change. Nevertheless, it is dangerous since I was about to slide and fall down and I stepped on some puddles I hadn´t seen. I got to the hospital and climbed the staircase running and counted seventy-five steps and five landings. When I was going up a man who must have been looking after a patient was coming down. It took me 36´30´´. I stopped to count my heart beats, around 135 and walked down the stairs. The heavy rain continued for about ten more minutes and then it became lighter. The temperature indicator showed 14 celsius -57,2 Farenheit at the indicator near the police station at avenida del Mediterráneo. Then I got to the start point in 72 minutes. I went on to the park towards the port and back for 14 minutes doing in all 86 minutes and around 11,6 kms.

Tomorrow we´re leaving for Barcelona because we´ve got two days off at schools in Andalucía since 28th February is this autonomous community day and we´ve got some things to do there. I´ll meet Manuel, a friend I´ve talked to you about before. He´s already run many marathons and half marathons.He´s training for Barcelona marathon, which is on 21st March. If I could, I´d like to do some training there. I´ll try to send a post from Catalonia.