week 16

[Antonio247]

Thursday 8th January. Oh, Christmas holidays are over. Here I am again waking up early to go for a run. It´s quarter to seven and I climb down the building stairs to get to my usual starting line. I have the whole park for me alone. There´s full moon. A ferry from Nador, Morocco, is getting to the port. It has a lot of lights on. How hard it is to start the first kilometre but how wonderful it is to finish and know that you have done your homework and you can do other things all day long. I go along the seafront plodding, then I go on towards the river and come back when I see 22´ 15´´ in my watch. Then, I come back along the same route trying to go faster the last kilometre. I get to the finish in 43´45´´. I go on until I´ve done 45 minutes doing about 6,5 kms ( 4 miles more or or less ). It´s surprising how human beings like the routines. I´ve seen the same people I used to see running early in the morning before Christmas. I´m thinking of doing Seville marathon on 29th February just as a sort of test trying to do it running until kilometre 33-35 ( about 20 miles ) and the rest walking and jogging just to see how I feel. That way I´ll still have 8 weeks to do Madrid marathon on 25th April. Do you think it is sensible or perhaps I shouldn´t take advantage of a marathon to train for another one?