Week 3

[Antonio247]

Week 3. 5th-11th April. My weight is 81 kg. I´d like to be under 80 at the marathon but I find it hard to lose one more kilo. I should eat less cakes and more vegetables and fruit. As I am on Easter holidays and I´ve started the easier weeks until marathon day, this week should be comfortable. At the weekend I´ve got to do 12 miles nearly a half marathon, which after last Sunday´s 20 miler shouldn´t be too hard but it won´t be a piece of cake either. I start feeling the anxiety of the marathon, looking forward to doing it but also a little scared of how I will finish.

Tuesday. I started at 10 pm from Almadrabillas park. It was a nice evening. The temperature indicator flashed 17º Celsius. There weren´t many people at the sea front and I saw very few people running today. I went along the sea prom at a fast pace for my level doing it in 15 minutes sharp, 90/120 seconds less than usual. I continued along the road to the petrol station where I turned back to do the way back getting to the start point in 40´33´´. Then, I continued towards the port where there were a lot of cars waiting to get into the ferry to Nador in Morocco and in minute 51, I came back. I stared at the full moon while I was humming a song of Víctor Manuel, who is a singer-song writer from Asturias in northern Spain- which says “Luna llena, invisibles son los hilos que manejas. Luna llena, siempre envuelta en un halo de lunática tristeza”. It could be translated as “ Full moon, invisible are the threads that you handle. Full moon, always covered with a halo of lunatic sadness”. Well, life is full of happy and sad moments. I got to the start point again in 62 minutes doing around 9 kilometres in all.