So, 2 weeks ago Bruce and myself flew to Valencia for a bit of a training week (on sand). The grand plan was to test our running equipment like Backpack, Gaiters etc but we have not gotten around to buying any of the specialist gear yet.. Arrived Saturday and warmed the legs after the travel with a quick 45 minutes. Sunday morning we woke from our 5* luxury accomodation at a Parador and headed out. We left at 08,30 for a 4 hour run, soft sand, hard sand - the lot. We managed around 31km (which on sand is pretty good) and only the sun caused a worry. Thinking it got up to 30º at 12,00 ish and seriously slowed us down. Great run though, beautiful beaches, women, sun, women ;-) Here is the 1st run:
The rest of the week was awesome also taking in the sights of the Valencia street circuit, La Tomatina - the Tomato throwing festival in Buñol, and around (in total) 80 - 90km running. On the last day we ran for 3hrs with the final 2km finished with a bit Fartlek across soft sand (sprint / jog / sprint / jog etc). Amazing training and seriously hard, could have done a bit more this!!!! Should have really done more running but a surprise Foam Party for children aged between 3 to 12 (and Bruce and Charlie) kept us up drinking untill 6am so wiped out 1 whole day - Oops, nobody is perfect!!
HAD AN AWESOME HOLIDAY THOUGH, WE NEED TO TRAIN HARDER AND TRAIN LONGER IN THE HEAT!!! I AM HOPING I AM GETTING USED TO THE HEAT, BUT WITH THE MdS AT THE END OF WINTER WE ARE BOTH GOING TO NEED TO TRAIN AGAIN IN HOT WEATHER SO 2-3 TRIPS TO A MEGA HOT COUNTRY ARE NEEDED IN DEC, JAN AND FEB I RECKON!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK BRUCE???
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