Week 12

[Antonio247]

Thursday I left home at 6,40 am. Before that, I did some abdominal workouts. I started from Almadrabillas park going to the end of the first part of the sea front, around 2.5 km long, in 16´ 37´´. Then I came back a little faster in 15´3´´. I slowed down for three minutes and then I went one minute faster slowing down another 3 minutes to go faster one minute and finishing three more minutes slowly. Afterwards, I did some stretching. In all, I did 41 minutes and about 6.5 km.

I think this is the first week I´m following Hal Higdon´s plan strictly and the truth is that I find it well. I thought it would be hard to train three consecutive days but I´ve enjoyed it since Tuesday and Thursday were short distance days. I´m looking forward to Saturday when I´ll have to do 12 miles alone. As my friend Manuel, who lives in Barcelona says, we must see the positive side of everything. He says that I shouldn´t worry about being running alone for two hours since it will be a wonderful chance to be on my own, to talk to myself, to think about many things. I think he´s right. As the Spanish poet Antonio Machado said “Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar”. It´s difficult to translate it into English but perhaps it could be : "Walker, there´s no way. You make your way by walking". I´m not sure if the translation is correct. If you find a better way to translate it, I´d be grateful if you tell us, Nigel, Brian, etc.