4 Days to Go!

4 days until Rock 'n' Roll Madrid marathon and I am beginning to feel the nerves now!

Have I trained enough?
Am I too confident about the hills?
What if I can't make it up the big hill at the end?
What if it the sun is out and the temperature goes over 20 degrees again?

I know all these thoughts are normal and I do feel very confident about this marathon. This worries me very much as I think maybe I'm being a little blase.

Days leading up to a marathon = Worry about this, worry about that. Worry! Worry! Worry!
Day of marathon = Excitement! Confidence! Lots of fun! Meeting new friends! Achievement!

And now onto the weather.......

I just love the way the marathon weather keeps changing day by day......I learnt this in the week leading up to Copenhagen marathon last year! I just think it's interesting and don't really believe what the weather will be until the morning of the marathon. They seem to be able to predict it with some degree of accuracy then ;-)

Well with 4 days to go the weather for Sunday is now looking like this:-

Time

Weather

Temp

Feels

Rain

Cloud

Wind

Gust

09:00

14 °c

14 °c

0.0 mm

27%

4 mph
W

5 mph

12:00

18 °c

18 °c

0.4 mm

48%

8 mph
W

9 mph

15:00

19 °c

19 °c

0.5 mm

28%

10 mph
W

12 mph

Hill Training for Madrid Marathon!

Ok, so that's a bit of an exaggeration!

Last Sunday I started my hill training for Madrid Marathon :-)

The only problem is that I live in Denmark and hills are hard to find!

My Hill

Luckily I live very close to a multi story carpark. It is quite high and has 4 slopes I can run up with the last one (for some strange reason) much steeper that the others.

Last week I ran up and down 3 times! Today I ran up and down 4 times! Next week I will run up and down 5 times and so on and so forth until I travel to madrid. If that doesn't get me ready for the hills out there then nothing will.

I hate hills!!

Start Number Rock 'n' Roll Madrid Marathon 2012!

I am now the proud owner of a start number for the Rock 'n' Roll Madrid Marathon 2012!!

My flights are booked and paid for and I have paid a deposit on a small apartment around 7 minutes walk from the start line where I will stay from the Thursday until the Monday.

I'm working on a training programme for myself which focuses on hill training as this is a weakness of mine. As a general rule I hate hills. In Valencia marathon we run in tunnels twice and both times coming out of the tunnel I walked up most of the hill!

Still it's going to be one BIG party and I can't wait :-)

Barcelona or Madrid Marathon Spring 2012?!!

Ok. I'm down to two Spring marathons that I'm interested in: Barcelona and Madrid!

Barcelona will have the cooler weather and the flatter course. But I've been to Barcelona already.

Madrid will have someone I know (the cool Spanish guy that was doing the interviews in Valencia) and I've never been there before. But will have hills and probably hot weather.

I think if it was a simple choice I would choose Barcelona but Madrid has something that Barcelona doesn't and that's ROCK 'N' ROLL!!

Click the link and watch the video at the top of the page and you will see why Madrid Marathon is very attractive to me
http://es.competitor.com/madrid/madrid-splash/?lang=en

What to do! What to do!!