Week 6

[Antonio247]

Week 6. 15th-21st March 2004. My weight is 82, 8 kgs. One more kilo than last week. I find it difficult to lower my weight. Perhaps I´m eating too much bread and olive oil.

I´m starting the last third of my marathon training. 42 days for the marathon, the same amount of kilometres that we´ll have to do. According to Hal Higdon novice marathon schedule, this week I should do 4 miles on Tuesday, 9 miles on Wednesday, five miles on Thursday and 18 miles on Saturday, which is quite hard for me.

Tuesday. I had to go at ten pm because today it has been a rainy day. I wanted to go earlier in the afternoon but it was raining so I put it off for later. When I started, it was drizzling but the night was nice since it wasn´t cold or windy. I started at Almadrabillas park going towards the lighthouse through the port. There were a few puddles since when it rains here for a few hours, the streets get flooded but it wasn´t too bad to run except at km 3 where there was a big puddle on the road to the lighthouse which made me turn back to avoid getting my trainers wet. I got there in 20´20´´. I came back along the same way. At the port, I saw a few Arabs waiting for their ferry to Morocco. I got back in 41 minutes but I continued along the sea front as far as Café París, one of the best places at the promenade to have a drink and some “tapas” in the afternoon or evening or chocolate and “churros” in the morning. Then, I got to the start point again in 51 minutes and around seven kilometres. Then, I did some stretching.