NYR - September results

After a full moth of visitors in my house I haven't got the time or energy to sit down and write about September. Only now I got around to it. October ones to follow showly. Hopefully. 

• NYR # 1 - Run

Not having trained very much and the difficulties registering for the "Juntos por la vida" (together through life) charity race in Puerto del Carmen (Lanzarote) I seriously considered giving up and skipping this one. Specially finding out that I had been invited to attend a christening later on that day. Then somehow things fell into place and not only I manage to register and do the 5k race half decently but I made it on time for the church ceremony, even if I had to walk back the 5k!!!! (Don't ask me why but the route was linear, not circular!). It was a very hot day and the steep hill at the start of the race didn't help. But as usual in these events there was a great atmosphere and I even manage to greet some people I know.

Result: passed. 

photo compliments of Lancelot Digital

photo compliments of Lancelot Digital

photo compliments of Peregrinos Runners

• NYR # 2 - Read

I haven't read any books.  I read for a while Mar Arias' blog  called "Retazos" while my RSS reader worked. It's small little stories by Mar Arias who I meat at the 1st bloggers meeting in Arrecife back in August. It's all I could manage during that month: short stories. And then I had trouble with my computer and the RSS reader disappeared. I haven't got around to resetting it again. So I stopped even reading these interesting short stories. Shame on me. Really.

Result: Fail with a capital f. 

• NYR # 3 - Eat

Nothing particularly springs to mind.

Result: failed. 

• NYR # 4 - Walk 

Kept walking the muts as usual. 

Result: passed.


Sumarising: 2 out of 2, mmmmm. Not a happy bunny. Let's hope October is better. The good news, it that you won't have to wait to long to find out! ;-)

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Here is the post that started it all: New Year Resolutions for 2013.

Decision time: 10k or half marathon?

OK, in my previous post "10k or half marathon" I said I would...

... try to run about 2 or 3 times a week this month to see if I can reach again my longest training route so far of 9k comfortably and see what kind of times I do...

before deciding by the end of September whether to run the 10k or attempt my first half marathon at the Lanzarote Internation Marathon 2013 on the 8th of December. 

Well, this is how it went: the first couple of weeks I only manage to run twice 3k in about 22 minutes each. And then it went down hill. 

I won't bore you with the reasons why (although I did have some unexpected traumatic enough experience - if that doesn't justify it, I don't know what would!). 

Anyway, despite of my lack of training, I still manage to run a local 5k charity race "Juntos por la Vida" last Saturday in 33 minutes & 45 seconds. To many, not a great mark. But I'm still proud of it, all the same. 

Photo compliments of Lancelot Digital

So, let's cut to the chase: 10k it is. 

As soon as my visitors are gone in two weeks, I'll start a semi-serious training schedule to attempt to run 10k in under an hour which would be my personal best. This is my goal now. 

Don't forget the registration fees discount get reduced on the 1st of October & they are full price from the 1st of December - so, what are you waiting for to register?



The post that started it all: 10k or half marathon?