My first 10 KM, Pedralba

54 mins and 30 secs. Quite pleased as I didn´t feel great at start. But after the ups there were, naturally, a few downs. And at 8 km I started to speed up and except for an up in the village I was running at a good speed. Hopefully will do it next year and will shave off a few minutes.

I was pleased after about 8 km !!

Next race 28th March Vall dÚxo. Hopefully Steve will come.

Another breakthrough. The reason I class this as a break through is for two reasons. Firstly I went at half past seven. I thought I was getting out at half five, but I had to drive the car into Pucol, as the break lights were remaining on. This put me into a huge bad mood, as it is so deadly boring. But I did it and fixed the situation. Got back with Steve and the kids from Karate and went out up The Cross in the dark and the cold. So the second reason it was a breakthrough was that I did The Cross in the dark. It is a bit tricky becuase it is hard to judge the height and angle of the rocks you run up or down, so getting hurt is more likely. Does this mean I´ll have to do runs after parents evenings ? Yes !

Sunday 17 /1/2010

Ran up the Penya de Quita via the bar. It went OK. Not the best I´ve felt, but not the worst. I overtook about 5 cyclists going up the first mountain track section. They seemed a bit surprised, but they never appeared again, even though I rested before the ramp. About 1 hour 10 mins.

So this is the famous Santo Espiritu Monastery

FABULOUS Breakthrough.

A dark grey drizzlly evening and I ran up the GR10 in reverse with a headtorch. The truth is I did go up slowly, but the fact is that I did do it. My first run in the mountains in the dark and it was slightly unpleasant conditions, so it was quite inpressive. ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Yeah yeah yeah !!!!!!!!!! COOL.

Runs in 2010

OK so ran on Mon 4/1 in the drizzle to the village. Then up the Cross Sunday 10/ 1 about lunchtime Felt really good. Magical.

It´s 2010

Yes it is and have done 1 run so far in London, Stockwell to be precise. Along the Wandsworth Rd, crashed into a guy on a bike when I did a u turn. No injuries. That was in the evening of 1/1/10 and it was cold, dark, very uninviting. Only 30 mins or so. Yesterday the 2nd we travelled all day, with a 2 hour delay at Gatwick. Today I did loads, but no run. Ahhhhh. Don´t feel too good because of no run. MUST go tomorrow. MUST MUST. HAve to go shopping for TV... Got more work to do. Cleaning to do...

Need to work out which runs to do this year. So hard from Spanish websites. Still no excuses.