18-03-2013, 11:25 AM
Hi there! Just wanted to give some feedback with great news! 
I ran the Barcelona Marathon yesterday with an unexpected result, 2h47'58!! I wanted to aim at 2:52 which I thought It would be a nice improvement over my 2h56 of last year without pushing it too far. But many club mates were aiming at running at 4:00 pace for a 2:48 and I realized that I was going to run pretty alone along all the distance because my goal was uncommon... so I decided to follow them a little bit on the distance. Felt really good well past the first half marathon running well in the aerobic range, with no lactate burning and avg HR 165 which is pretty fine numbers for me so I decided to go all-out and end at that pace. Ran a very smooth and equal-effort race and in the end I was the only one of the pack achieving the sub 4' pace for the distance!
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/285630121
So really happy now! This week I'm focusing a lot on recovery and easy walking and so and then I guess will start training again for the 10K for next spring races.
Hope you're all doing fine here, keep going!

I ran the Barcelona Marathon yesterday with an unexpected result, 2h47'58!! I wanted to aim at 2:52 which I thought It would be a nice improvement over my 2h56 of last year without pushing it too far. But many club mates were aiming at running at 4:00 pace for a 2:48 and I realized that I was going to run pretty alone along all the distance because my goal was uncommon... so I decided to follow them a little bit on the distance. Felt really good well past the first half marathon running well in the aerobic range, with no lactate burning and avg HR 165 which is pretty fine numbers for me so I decided to go all-out and end at that pace. Ran a very smooth and equal-effort race and in the end I was the only one of the pack achieving the sub 4' pace for the distance!
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/285630121
So really happy now! This week I'm focusing a lot on recovery and easy walking and so and then I guess will start training again for the 10K for next spring races.
Hope you're all doing fine here, keep going!