Almería half marathon. 30th January 2006

[Antonio247]

How are you doing with your training? I can´t complain. I´m feeling all right. At least, I don´t feel any discomfort in my calves and I´m training five days a week with one day for 400 metre series or 30-35 minutes tempo run. I´m still slow but it is good to get faster. Last Thursday I did six 400 m series doing between 1´48´´ and 1´54´´. It´s really tiring but I find it good. First, I did 17 minutes jogging and after each 400 m, I jogged for two minutes, except after the third one that I jogged for four minutes. When I finished I did 13 minutes more jogging and some stretching at Emilio Campra stadium, the one where the half marathon ended last year.

I´m going to take part at a half marathon on Monday 6th December. It´s the Constitution day in Spain. We have at school a really long weekend because on Wednesday is another holiday - Inmaculate Conception day. Then, on Tuesday we don´t have lessons at school either. It is called a "puente", which means "bridge". A lot of people travel on those long weekends.

Well, I´m going to participate at a small half marathon in the northern part of the province of Almería. It starts at Overa and ends at Cuevas de Almanzora. It is mainly along paths and the fee, 9 euros, goes to the Cancer association. There aren´t any awards for the winners but everybody gets a bag with plenty of goodies.

Greetings from Almería

Antonio

PS. I´ve already entered Almería half marathon through "Ticket run" but I couldn´t do it with a credit card because there were problems with that system. However, I did it easily with a bank order. If you want me to enter you, you should send me a private message or an e-mail with the following data:
Name - Surname - Passport number - Birth date - Address - Town -
Postcode - Telephone number