November novelties.

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Yesterday I was at the start line in Fene to take part in the half marathon “Memorial Mario Puentes: Volta a Ría de Ferrol”. I don’t how the weather is wherever you guys live, but these last weeks we had an awful weather here in the northwest of Spain. Cold, rainy, windy, hail….the worst you can imagine. Of course yesterday morning was not better but I have to say that we were lucky because five minutes before we started the race a hell of a storm fall over all the participants, but it was just for five to ten minutes and after that time we had no more rain in the rest of the morning, but to offset these good news the wind showed up. As far as I am concerned I didn’t have great expectations on this race, first because of the course (a really hard one), second because I am not at my best yet and third because of the weather conditions. But at the end I was happy with the result, 1h:30m, not my pb but I found myself very comfortable from the half of the race and even better in the last 6K , though they were the hardest part of the race. The organization of the race was good, but they made a mistake locating the water points too far one from each other (the first at the 5k point, no water in the 10 k and the next at the 16k). Now I am recovering to be ready for Sunday in Lugo, eating “bocadillos de jamon” with Neda bread (very famous around here as BB should know.