Week 13

[Antonio247]

Sunday 1st February 2004. Although I felt a bit tired from yesterday´s run, I went for a run at 6.15 pm. It was a nice afternoon. There were a lot of people strolling along the sea front so I decided to go along the beach. I continued along the road to the dry river and went on as far as a place where there are some works. I walked one minute from minute 30 to 31 and went back to the end of the first part of the sea front. It was already dark. Then I stopped one minute to do some stretching and continued at a faster pace doing the sea front in 15 minutes. There were still a lot of people strolling. By the way, I met some people I know who were going for a walk. I continued two more minutes and then I did some stretching. I felt better than I expected since today I felt my legs a bit stiff. In all, I did 70 minutes and about 10 kilometres.

Summary of week 13 It´s been a softer week since I had done Almería half marathon the previous week. I´ve gone for a run three times instead of four but I have done two cross training days instead of one. I´m trying to get more speed and strength.

I´ve already completed one third of my training for the marathon. I feel quite well and eager to try to finish the marathon under 4 hours 30 minutes. There´s a question in a Spanish forum in which you can try to guess the time you will do. I´ll try to do it in 4 hours 22 minutes. I like that number. I think it would be great if I could do that but, anyway, just finishing it would be wonderful.